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Jim Damato wrote:
I am, however, curious about "there's nothing to show that OS/400 has caught
up yet".  In 1995-1996 I lived through TCP/IP hell - mostly in the print
arena.  I had thought that OS/400's TCP/IP implementation had made it by
now, but I'm not using much more than AS/400 printing, LPR/LPD and FTP.
What are OS/400's TCP/IP shortcomings?

While not strictly TCP/IP (but rather just IP), the iSeries does not have many of the advanced routing features of other OSes. Filtering, masquerading, port forwarding, etc. Of course it begs the question: does the iSeries really need those things? It doesn't bother me - use a router for that stuff.


However, the performance of TCP/IP on iSeries doesn't seem too good. But without firm benchmarks, it's hard to know. Is it the IP stack that is slow, or is the system generally slow? I base this simply on the fact that my iSeries doesn't push traffic onto the wire as quickly as some of my other systems as measured by watching a clock.

James Rich


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