remaker@brahms.amd.com (Phillip Remaker) (11/06/90)
Currently, our company uses a SNA VAN to service the field offices. I contend that we could probably get a TCP/IP VAN cheaper and that we could get increased functionality from it. The problem is that we have to transparently replace the current VAN before we can get management buy in. The only thing they do in those offices is terminal and print service from a 3174 cluster controller, which in turn has a xxx kbps SLDC connection to the VAN. Now, is there anything I can do with a cisco product to make a virtual SDLC circuit over a TCP/IP VAN? I figured a 19.2k or 38.4k circuit from terminal server to terminal server would do fine as the terminal server packetizes the data at one end and unpacketizes it at the other. Is this possible? I have asked about forming virtual circuits before and I seem to remember that they are not supported, or not yet or something. Also, if the brute force virtual circuit is not the answer, can we do it a more elegant way? Ideally, we'd have them all run tn3270, but it is hard to just throw out so many cluster controllers. The migration is a long-term strategy, but we have to proceed slowly and show that there is more functionality to be had by using TCP/IP. I admit that my SDLC knowledge is SLIM, and my proposals may be way too naive. However, I am open to suggestion. Has this been done with cisco products? Help stamp out SNA! Send me some hints 8-). -- Phillip A. Remaker A.M.D. M/S 167 P.O. Box 3453 Sunnyvale, CA 94088-3000 TCP/IP internetworking from hell. DoD #185 remaker@amd.com 408-749-2552 Things to do today: 1) Get a clue. 2) Get a job. 3) Get a life.