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From: ifnxdml@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Lyle)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: SNA on 386 Intr
Message-ID: <1990May9.164041.15171@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 9 May 90 16:40:41 GMT
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Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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In article <26462850-43f.1comp.unix.i386-1@point.UUCP> wek@point.UUCP (Bill Kuykendall) writes:
>>Anybody have any recommendations for doing SNA with Interactive Unix?
>
>Mitek makes a TCP/IP<>SNA gateway that looks like a telnet host.  The main 
>advantage of this type of gateway is that everything that can speak TCP/IP, 
>including Macintoshes and PCs, can access the SNA hosts identically, with 
>the same keyboard mapping as well.
>
>The only problems I've had with it seem to have been related to the use 
>of 3Com 3C505 intelligent adapters in some of the pc's that access the 
>gateway.  A trace revealed that the 505 cards were not responding correctly, 
>causing the Mitek to hang.  The Mitek software ought to be robust enough 
>to keep the box from failing.  The next release will be, I'm sure.

What release of the Mitek software are you running... I have their high
speed gateway connected between our AS/400 and TCP/IP and have not had
a problem...