sun to as/400 --- summary

From: Matt Emerson (matt@nightfly.uucp)
Date: Thu Aug 12 1993 - 00:56:09 CDT


i posted about a week ago asking about ways to hook a sun to an as/400
over twinax cable and do 5250 emulation. in short, it looks like
this is not possible.

here is a summary of what i found out:

there is a danish company which makes a device to attach
twinax peripherals and hosts to a (presumably ethernet) network.

Cray Networks A/S
Smedeholm 12-14
DK-2730 Herlev
Phone: 44530100
FAX: 44531415

a call to ibm resulted in a recommendation to put tcp/ip on the as/400.

brixton systems (1-800-BRIXTON, (617) 661 6262) makes a boatload of
sun-ibm connectivity products, including an sbus token ring card and
5250 emulation software.

starware (formerly sna solutions, (510) 704-2000, sales@starware.com) also
is in the sun-ibm connectivity business. they offer products to hook
the as/400 and sun up via sdlc or token ring. their products require
sunlink sna peer-to-peer. their product line looks pretty spiffy and
probably works great, but it isn't cheap---the sunlink sna peer-to-peer
runtime alone is $3000.

andrew corp. (1-800-776-6174, (206) 485-8200) now offers products that
work with sco unix, and no longer supports suns.

if anyone wants any more info, email me; my machine is not very well
connected newswise, and i probably won't see any followups.

ibm stuff is certainly different...

-matt

-- 
Matt Emerson   fmsystm!nightfly!matt or nightfly!matt@fmsystm.ncoast.org 
412 E. Homestead St. / Medina, OH  44256-1763 / voice: +1 (216) 722-2077



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