Re: Connecting to V5R4 System

[Alexandre Bencz <alebencz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!
Dis you tried using the Client Access ?
If yes, try with some other 5250 console, like this: http://tn5250j.org/
I use this console and I have used with more old os version, with v4r4!

On Sun, Oct 6, 2019, 18:54 B Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm trying to connect to my old 515 running v5r4.  I thought it would be
> easy, just use the LAN console.
>
> I fired it up, connected the cat 5 cable from my PC to the LAN port and
> verify the IP with ping.
>
> But, when it asks for the user and PW I get:
>
> MSGSSL004 - An error was encountered during the handshake phase.....
>
> I couldn't find any info on this, and it never did this before when the
> system was active ( years ago of course haha)
>
> I tried connecting my PC's lan port to the other LAN ports on the system to
> try and get a normal 5250 session but I can't seem to get that to work...
> no ips I have set up are pingable.
>
> Does anyone have any "back door" ideas to get on this system?  All I really
> want to do is clean it up.  I have a feeling maybe my PC doesn't have old
> SSL/TLS ciphers on it anymore that were used by the LAN console?  Or could
> this error be something else?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bradley V. Stone
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