Smooth Sailing With Network Monitoring Software
In today's world of distributed connectivity, the ability to go from one place to another can be like a drive down easy street or a turbulent journey over bumps and potholes.
To make the connectivity challenge smoother, Eicon Technology offers a solution with monitoring network software traffic. By providing a route for NetWare, Banyan Vines or NetBIOS LAN traffic, standalone or LAN PCs can connect locally or remotely to IBM AS/400 hosts.
Network Monitoring Softwares makes your LAN part of IBM's SNA network, providing concurrent use of LAN resources and AS/400 PC Support functions.
This hardware and software solution enables LAN PCs to connect locally or remotely to IBM AS/400 hosts over SDLC or X.25 lines or through Token Ring attachments. It uses intelligent communication cards from Eicon Technology, which are available in a PC bus and Micro Channel architecture, and establishes a direct connection to the AS/400 through the LU6.2 protocol, which permits AS/400s to see PCs as intelligent peer devices. The Eicon card can be installed in an IBM-based 80286 PC or later, PS/2 or compatible running DOS 3.1 or later. Token Ring, Ethernet, StarLAN and ARCnet LAN topologies are supported. The LAN operating system software can be Novell NetWare (version 2.15 or later), Banyan Vines or NetBIOS-compatible network software. Before installing the card on our 486 PC, we had to create a line and controller description for the connection to the Network Monitoring Softwares gateway machine on the AS/400. Since some of the parameters in the Network Monitoring Softwares configuration programs are associated with parameters on the AS/400, values must agree. Information on a Network Monitoring Softwares travels across the media much like a train travels from the East Coast to the West Coast, stopping at any number of cities to load and unload passengers. Passengers on a train are frequently separated into different cars of the train depending upon their destination, and in turn, informed when the city of their choice has been reached. To travel across a Network Monitoring Softwares, information on a network is separated into packets. Each packet includes header information about its source and destination address. As packets destined for NetWare, they are sent from the AS/400 onto the network. They travel across the Token Ring network to the EiconCard, which then encapsulates the packet in an IPX packet and sends it across the Ethernet network to the NetWare server for processing. Coming from the server, all IPX packets are inspected by the EiconCard for their destination, and those heading for the AS/400 are stripped of the IPX information and forwarded to the AS/400 for processing.
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