Now ESCON is a communication protocol & so is TCP/IP... Now you can
     have an OSA adapter and have TCP/IP talking to it... then the OSA
     Adapter talks to MVS over ESCON channels...

     Now we did have ESCON cards for RS/6000's and worked with for a while
     (if I'm remembering correctly) pushing backups/archives from the
     RS/6000 (adsm client) to MVS (adsm server) across ESCON links... BUT
     this was with special commmethod within ADSM (as I seem to remember)

     That was a long time ago and I have NOT slept since then...

     later,
           Dwight


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Subject: server to server comm method (2)
Author:  pdeveau (pdeveau AT UOTTAWA DOT CA) at unix,mime
Date:    5/28/99 3:50 PM


>>Do any of you know if the ESCON card can run TCP/IP or will we have to
>>make do with Ethernet adapters and not be able to take advantag of a
>>high-speed pipe?

>Paul - You're assuming that ethernet is ploddingly slow.  Get a fast
>       ethernet card.  See:
>   http://wwwhost.ots.utexas.edu/ethernet/ethernet-home.html
>   http://www.ganymedesoftware.com/html/ethernet.htm
>   http://www.gigabit-ethernet.org/

That's fine, but it doesn't really answer the question. Does anybody know
if the ESCON can handle TCP/IP?

Thanks again.

Paul Deveau