On Jun 11, 2006, at 10:55 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
In a recent note <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT
I think it also was due (in part at least) to the late 80's/early
90's Anything but IBM attitude,
Possibly, but I also see the same attitude with TCP/IP.
This is the standard? Why?
Compared to SNA, it sucks!
Can you envision running the Internet on SNA?
o 8-character flat namespace?
o No DNS?
Or am I mistaking attributes of VTAM for SNA? (But still, where's
SNA's DNS?)
-- gil
Gil,
I don't think SNA has anything like a DNS (warning my info is old).
The last time I did a 3745 gen you had to hardcode a lot of subareas.
Although I do think they have updated it since then (hope so anyway).
There were some route tables that could get hairy. I had access to
the RTG tool and it made a complicated map reasonably easy. IIRC, SNI
was another mess that helped, but it was still complicated. JES2
could add complexity as he could start routing output via another
node that you didn't expect if you weren't careful. To most (all?)
nodes in my 200+ node JES2 network I turned off the JES2 routing as
we were connected all over the place and I did not want the output to
be done through a 3rd party node.
I suppose if the nodes were all one company it wouldn't make a
difference. But financial information was too important to let others
see it.
Ed
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