jbreeden@netcom.COM (John Breeden) (02/07/91)
Saw an article in a trade rag this week (forgot which one) that stated that cisco was going to build in IBM PU 2.0, 2.1 and 4 functionality in their routers to go along with SDLC-in-tcpip routing (yea, let's *REPLACE* that remote FEB with an AGS+ !!). Could someone at cisco fill this in with a little more detail?
john@waikato.ac.nz (John Houlker) (02/28/91)
In article <32684@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, Joel P. Bion <jpbion@cisco.com> writes: > Thank you for your questions concerning cisco's existing and upcoming support > for protocols in IBM's SNA. . . Thanks for your informative response Joel; looks good! Another question on SDLC tunnelling techniques; is it possible to mix all three forms on the same net (or does this require all connections to use the most general form, i.e. "full SDLC transport"). Now pushing my luck a bit further :-), would cisco consider providing SNA interfaces not just as SDLC but also in the form of encapsulations supported by other SNA "gateway" vendors? By this I mean a configuration like: IBM HOST - SDLC - ciscoA--"complex networking cloud"--ciscoB- DECNET/SNA where "DECNET/SNA" is the SNA-over-DECNET that DEC SNA gateways provide (whatever that is - haven't tried to unpick it). If this were available we wouldn't need a DEC gateway - its function is to allow access using DEC SNA application software on VAXes or PCs (avoiding the need to use IBM equipment). It may be that the cisco SNA software is already doing much of what a DEC gateway does, and just needs a few extras to convert to DECNET transport (yes, this is wishful thinking). I believe there may be other vendors that provide SNA delivery via forms of encapsulation (in particular over IP); again emulation of popular "interfaces" of this sort could be most useful. Thanks John