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From: hughes@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (larry hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Seeking info on TCP/IP for IBM m/f
Keywords: TCP/IP, IBM
Message-ID: <29590@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 13 Nov 89 22:08:59 GMT
References: <122@centaure.UUCP>
Sender: hughes@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (larry hughes)
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In article <122@centaure.UUCP> cliff@centaure.UUCP (Clifford Dibble) writes:
>
>I'm interested in TCP/IP products for IBM mainframes. I'm taking a 
>"Introduction to LANs" class, and this is one area of research
>suggested by the instructor. Specifically, we're to find ways to
>make an Ethernet full of Sun workstations talk to an IBM 
>mainframe.
>
>In the article "OSI Takes on TCP/IP" (S.Fisher, UNIX World, Feb 1989),
>it is stated:
>
>	"... in addition, IBM extended support TCP/IP support from
>	 its UNIX systems to its mainframes. System 370s can 
>	 communicate with devices supporting TCP/IP either by
>	 a direct connection to an Ethernet network, or through 
>	 the 8232 LAN channel station to a token ring LAN.
>

Not really "direct"!  IBM's TCP/IP solution calls for an
industrial-strength AT that's attached to the ethernet,
and channel attached back to the IBM host.  They call it
a FEP (front end processor).

We're running an Intel FEP here...

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