AS400 / Novell-Ethernet / PC

[Stephen P. Goodman]

Greetings,

I've been handling an AS400 which, until recently, was attached to a Novell
3.12 LAN, which enabled Rumba under Windows 3.1 and CA400 under W95 from
various PCs on it. However, at this time we've relocated the AS400 to a
site that doesn't have a LAN, though we DO have two of the PCs that were
formerly attached via the LAN.

Is it possible to do a straight 3270 / File Transfer session under this,
with a direct connect to the Ethernet connector/transceiver via coax?

Stephen Goodman
EarthLight Productions * http://www.earthlight.net

[Paul Nicolay]

Hi Stephen,

It's a bit confusing... the new site doesn't have a LAN... but the AS/400
seems to have an Ethernet card. Am I right ? In case I am, yes you can
connect a PC directly via thin-coax to the AS/400 and use the same
configuration as you used to do. In case the AS/400 Ethernet transceiver
would be UTP, you would need a small hub, or a single crossed-UTP cable.

BTW, AS/400 uses 5250 as screen protocol (not 3270 which is for
mainframes).

Kind regards,
Paul
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[Stephen P. Goodman]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your response. Sorry about the confusion.

In the location where all this stuff USED to be, there's the AS/400, with
the following attachments:

* Terminals attached via twinax...
* The hub to thin coax to the Novell server.
* A 3Com thin coax transceiver (through which ran "ETHLINE"), on the
AS/400...
* the PC-in-question running Rumba or CA/400 attached via the LAN.

In the present location we have (avoiding sounding like WCW):

* the AS/400 (w/transceiver of course)...
* the terminals up and attached via twinax...
* a Blank Model 95, formerly Novell server (that is, wiped)...
* lots of intact thin coax...
* the PC-in-question waiting to be attached somewhere.

Is there a way to do this without a hub and server? Else I've no problem
searching for the old software/hardware, it'd just take that much more time,
which, of course, is someone's money.

Thanks again,

[nina jones]

> Is there a way to do this without a hub and server? Else I've no problem
> searching for the old software/hardware, it'd just take that much more time,
> which, of course, is someone's money.

i'm not sure i totally understand either, but here goes:

if you want to attach the p/c to the as/400 using ethernet, you will need to get a hub.
you do not need a 'network server'. the p/c can attach directly to the hub.

if you do not want to get a hub, you will need to get a twinax card for your p/c.

nj