haas%gr@CS.UTAH.EDU (Walt Haas) (12/22/87)
Forgive me if I'm asking in the wrong place, but has anybody out there had any real-world experience with a series of products from Fibronics designed to connect an IBM mainframe to an Ethernet? A local sales rep just sent me some advertisements for a K310x product line that hooks a block multiplexer channel to an Ethernet and a software package called KNET TCP/MVS that implements guess which protocol on guess which os. Thanks in advance--Walt Haas ARPA: haas@cs.utah.edu uucp: ...utah-cs!haas
jch@DEVVAX.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Jeffrey C Honig) (12/22/87)
>Forgive me if I'm asking in the wrong place, but has anybody out there >had any real-world experience with a series of products from Fibronics >designed to connect an IBM mainframe to an Ethernet? Try knet-l@tamvm1.bitnet, it is primarily about the VM product but may have useful information. To subscribe send mail to listserv@tamvm1.bitnet with a single line of data: subscribe knet-l Jeff
louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU ("Louis A. Mamakos") (12/23/87)
I've used both a Fibronics K200 and a K320, but on a UNIVAC/Sperry/UniSys 1100 mainframe system. We bought the K200, and have a K320 on loan in a beta test mode. Personally, I prefer the K200. It seems to have good performence, and costs less than the K320. However, the K320 is "smart" and programmable. By default, the K320 emulates a K200, but in the future can/could be upgraded to do processing and offload the host. We don't need that capability. We wrote our own TCP/IP implementation for the 1100 series; I have no experience with the KNET package. louie
LDW@MVSA.USC.EDU (Leonard D Woren) (12/23/87)
Anyone looking into TCP/IP for MVS should also look at the ACS 9310 and Acces/MVS, from Advanced Computer Communications. We're installing one now. /Leonard