Re: Display station connection question/issue?

[Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark

I've seen this before and funnily enough it involved a printer - is it a 
third party printer with 5250 interface ? (just curious)

The answer was to cable all of them with twinax instead of using baluns and 
UTP. Using UTP/baluns to daisy chain was just plain unreliable.

To provide som esupport for this theory try hanging each device off the end 
of the twinax cable. If each of them work and you have the addresses right 
then it is most likely cable.

Same devices worked fine through a twinax concentrater, but daisy chaining 
with net cable and baluns was .. well let's just say it was too much like 
real twinax for me to persist :)

Hope this helps

Evan Harris


>It's been a long time since I had to deal with this, so if someone can tell
>me what I am doing wrong I would greatly appreciate it.
>
>
>Configuration
>
>
>DSP01-----Twinax cable-----PRT01--Balun--network
>cable--Balun--DSP02--Balun--network cable--Balun--DSP03
>
>
>What happens is that DSP03 gets a signon but DSP02 does not, it stays Vary
>On Pending... All other devices are ok.
>  Any ideas or is this not possible?
>
>
>I have double and triple checked addresses, they are ok.  Have swapped
>network cables with ones I know work and same result. Swapped baluns with
>ones I know work, no diff....
>
>
>
>Mark Allen
>Director of MIS
>Fast Friends, Inc.
>(601) 888-4392 ext. 13
>www.fast-friends.com
>
>

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