Re: Leased Line AS/400 access

["Carl Galgano" <cgalgano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff:
I would suggest you move to a TCP/IP environment.  You will get great
response time.  I would not totally discount the dial up route, you can't
beat the price and you can leave the dial up up all the time, just never
bring it down.  If it drops, just redial.  As you said there are so many
ways to do this.  Will you ever have the need for any dumb terminal at the
remote?  I suggest you use a router on each end.  One would connect to your
internal network and have a connection to either the leased or dialup line
(makes no difference).  The other router is in the remote office, and
connect all the PCs via Ethernet to it.  The use a Telnet emulator on the
PC, and either a print server or connect the printer to the PC with an
LPD/LPR client for printing.  Add devices as necessary.
My experience has been that FR is not very cost effective to simulate a
leased line situation, especially if you go with one of the large national
carriers that use the local telco facilities for the local loops.  You local
telco may be able to provide a local FR solution or other high speed local
connection.
HTH
Carl Galgano
EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
540 Powder Springs Street
Suite C19
Marietta, GA  30064
770-422-2995
mailto: cgalgano@ediconsulting.com
http://www.ediconsulting.com
EDI, Communications and AS400 Technical Consulting

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@fwi.com>
To: Midrange List Server (David Gibbs) <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 6:13 PM
Subject: Leased Line AS/400 access


>We have a 2nd building 7 blocks down the street.  For eons now we have
>connected this 2nd building to our main building (here) via a leased
>line.  At the other end is a Win 3.1 PC and PC printer.  We run Client
>Access remotely.  The modems are IBM 3865s at 9600.  (I would have put
>in faster modems long ago except the SDLC card is limited to 9600, so
>why bother . . .)
>
>I need to replace the PC for Y2K compliancy with a PC running Win98.
>This site needs a 5250 session and printer emulation.  I want them up
>all day, not dial up.  They need to update a spreadsheet weekly that is
>stored on the AS/400 in the IFS.  (It takes 5 mins to open this
>spreadsheet at 9600, what a pain.)  We have twinax and ethernet (TCP/IP)
>at the main site.  I want the flexibility to have other devices at the
>remote location in the future.  In addition, there may very well be a
>3rd site (2 blocks down the street in the _other_ direction) in the near
>future that I would want connected to the main building as well.
>
>What is the best way to connect these site(s) to us?  A remote LAN
>access of some kind?  Frame relay?  I know enough about these things to
>be dangerous.  In the old days, there was usually 1 way to do something
>and that's how you did it.  Now there are many more options.  Microage
>and other PC vendors know LANs and remote access and such, but don't
>know squat about the AS/400.  IBM and IBM Business Partners may tend to
>ignore some lower cost solutions in favor of an all IBM answer.  Any
>help pointing me to places with answers is appreciated.
>
>Thanks.
>
>--
>-Jeff
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