"As I see it, your alternatives are point-to-point like PPP or CTC, or multipoint like a TCP/IP network or channels with lots of devices."
Assuming that each of your apps are in different machine images, CTC is NOT the way to go on s/390 or zSeries for Linux. Its based on an old/slow protocol. If your machine can handle a QDIO card (OSA express), that is much superior in both speed and throughput. Hipersockets (real or virtual) are even better. Also, TCP/IP over OSAx cards between machines is also faster than CTC. With the current technology, Linux people shouldn't listen to the old hands that insist on using CTC. (Or if all yours apps are on one machine, you don't need TCP/IP at all ;-) ) ===== Jim Sibley Implementor of Linux on zSeries in the beautiful Silicon Valley "Computer are useless.They can only give answers." Pablo Picasso __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
