Bill,

Only one warning about DLSW:  As far as I remember, it doesn't come "free"
with base Cisco routers.  So, if you bought your routers "IP only", it's not
there.  I think it's part of what cisco calls the "IBM package" or something
like that...

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"Thomas M. Root" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> >We are trying to change our DTC48's from being connected to a local
HP3000
> >to connecting to a remote HP3000 over a routed network.
>
> Bill,
>
> This doesn't address your original question, but if you want to connect
your
> DTC over a routed network and you have Cisco routers at each end, you
might
> want to look into Data Link Switching (DLSw) at:
>      http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/697/index.shtml
>
> I'm not familiar with the details, but this is a software option that can
be
> loaded into the endpoint routers that wraps the AFCP protocol in a
standard
> TCP/IP packet which is sent to the other endpoint where it is unwrapped
and
> placed on the local network segment as AFCP.  Between the endpoints, any
> intervening routers just see TCP/IP and process it like any other packet.
>
> This lets your 3000 communicate with DTCs over a routed network without
> having to do anything special to either the 3000 or the DTCs.
>
> HTH
>
> Thomas M. Root
>
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