Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!ucsd!ucbvax!ntrlink.UUCP!pjj From: pjj@ntrlink.UUCP (Patrick Johnston) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ibm Subject: Re: TCP/IP and Token-ring Message-ID: <9006010204.AA02899@lilac.berkeley.edu> Date: 1 Jun 90 00:26:11 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Patrick Johnston Organization: The Internet Lines: 32 In article <9005301446.AA25457@lilac.berkeley.edu> Steve Strickland writes: >>But, Does anyone know if you can talk to a 370 class system via >>T-R and TCP/IP (not SNA) through either a 3745 or local 3174 TIC >>adapter? If so how?? >> >Can't be done right now. I think comten advertized a FEP that would >do this. >Strick COMTEN has a front end that can talk TCP/IP, but this is a replacemnt for the 3745, not an addition to it. The only way IBM provides for TCP/IP connections to mainframe are: 1. Channel attached 8232 with Token ring adapter. 2. Channel attached 3172 (faster replacement for the 8232) 3. 9370 using a Token Ring adapter (VM only) IBM did just recently announce an RPQ for the the 3174 TIC adapter that will allow a PC connected to the 3174 via coax run a limited version of their LAN support program. The data is routed from a PC server on the TokenRing, through the TIC on the 3174, through the COAX to a client PC that has an IBM 3270 Coax adapter. While this does not pertain to your original question. It does show that IBM is cabable of putting more options and inteligence into the 3174. (there is even a 3174 model that comes with a 20 meg hard drive! go figure??). I think that IBM will announce many more options for the 3174 in the future. COMTEN may force them to announce sooner than they would like! Patrick Johnston D