RE: AS/400 Multiple Ethernet Controllers

[Chris Bipes <rpg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We have several subnets at our location.  Each LAN card is in a separate subnet.  All user have direct access to the AS400 from their subnet without going thru a router.  Traffic is balanced by subnet,  if one card goes down, we have the users change the ip address to the AS400 to one of the other subnets and their traffic goes thru a router that ties the subnets together and they are back up.  We also run SNA on one of the cards for AS400 APPN in its own segment which keep the chatty SNA traffic off our main backbones.

 

Christopher K. Bipes     mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com
Sr. Programmer/Analyst   mailto:Chris_Bipes@Yahoo.com
CrossCheck, Inc.         http://www.cross-check.com
6119 State Farm Drive    Phone: 707 586-0551 x 1102
Rohnert Park CA  94928 Fax: 707 586-1884

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-----Original Message-----
From: oludare [mailto:oludare@ix.netcom.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 11:47 AM
To: AS/400 Midrange Usergroup
Subject: AS/400 Multiple Ethernet Controllers

Hi,

 

I'm curious to know the advantages of having more than 1 Lan Card in an AS/400 system.  What usage of this could be beneficial to a company, IS dept etc?

 

Thanks,

 

 

Dare