Thanks!!  That was helpful!




evanloon AT KLM DOT NL on 02/18/98 04:03:19 AM

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cc:    (bcc: Julie Phinney/Green Bay/Humana)
Subject:  Re: high speed connectivity to OS/390




Hi Julie!
I don't have experience with the card but ther are some (small) downsides.
You have to buy an interface card for each UNIX client.
Each client requires a port on your Escon Director.
I don't think TCP/IP for MVS can deliver you that kind of throughput. We
have a Cisco router connected to our OS/390 server and I cannot get it
faster then about 2 MBytes/sec.
IBM indicated that one cannot get much higher with TCP/IP 3.2.
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon