RE: JUMPING THE GUN, Re: Hooking up and starting a 520

Jim,

Jim wrote:
Mr. Massiello, what exactly do you mean by this?

Once you connect your PC LAN Console, it will connect.

Does LAN Console simply look for some sort of "hello, I'm a new AS/400"
beacon, and not need to be told an address?

My understanding is that the box and the LAN console connect through
just our ordinary office LAN. Is this correct?


First, please call me Pete.

The PC and the iSeries use BOOTP to "find each other". You give to
Client Access the partition number (Power 5 & Power 6 we start counting at
one, even if no partitions, and Power 4 we start counting at 0), the serial
number, and the IP address of the LAN Console Adapter in the iSeries. Once
it finds the partition number and serial number, it shoves the IP address
into the Ethernet adapter on the iSeries, and you are connected. Everything
should always be on the same subnet, and in fact when I am doing this on new
machine installs, I ALWAYS directly connect the Ethernet port on the PC
directly into the first Ethernet T1 on a Power 6, or T5 on a Power 5.

Once I have this working, I go and buy a small little Hub at
Staples, and I plug my iSeries LAN Console Ethernet cable into this, I plug
my PC Ethernet cable on the PC that I am running Client Access LAN Console
on, and then a cable to my network (I have three connections in that hub at
this point). This way, no Network tech is going to decide they are changing
a router and going to block a port, and all of a sudden my Console is lost.


Pete

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James H. H. Lampert
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 8:06 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: JUMPING THE GUN, Re: Hooking up and starting a 520

Assuming it is set to expect a LAN Console:

At this point, we have a blinking green light with an icon that looks
vaguely like a circle with a tilde in it, and a couple of green blinkies
behind the grille. (I thought computers with lots of blinkies like that
went out with "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.")

And the boss tells me he doesn't know what address to set in the LAN
Console.

Mr. Massiello, what exactly do you mean by this?

Once you connect your PC LAN Console, it will connect.

Does LAN Console simply look for some sort of "hello, I'm a new AS/400"
beacon, and not need to be told an address?

My understanding is that the box and the LAN console connect through
just our ordinary office LAN. Is this correct?

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JHHL