Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!maxim.UUCP!prc From: prc@maxim.UUCP (Robert Claeson) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm Subject: Re: IBM AS400 talking to 386 PC Message-ID: <8909171951.AA10136@jade.berkeley.edu> Date: 17 Sep 89 18:38:59 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Robert Claeson Organization: The Internet Lines: 22 In article <1379@resource.Resource.COM> bryan@resource.Resource.COM (Bryan Beck) writes: >I am looking for some software/hardware that will permit me to use an >AS400 or System 38 as front-end to an application on a Xenix 386 box. > >In theory ethernet w/ TCP/IP would do the trick (I think), but I am trying >to find some other ideas or some support on the TCP/IP theory. I was just about to post such a query to comp.protocols.ibm, although my needs are for a (currently) TCP/IP-based or (future) ISO-based network of (mostly) UNIX-based systems (mostly the SysVR3.x variety). In my dreams I've seen a box that is a more-or-less transparent gateway between SNA and TCP/IP (or ISO), and I know of one such box from Mitek, but it requires a lot of software to be installed on all hosts that should be able to use it, and as far as I know, that software is only available for VAX/VMS yet. Further- more, since the network consists of many different machines, we would have to buy a lot of ports, which would just be much too expensive. -- Robert Claeson E-mail: rclaeson@erbe.se ERBE DATA AB