Chris Mason wrote:
Lee
You are talking of an illogical "conversion" here. SNA is a hierarchy of
protocols which is quite capable of using Ethernet as one of the
protocols
in the Data Link Control layer. I guess - only a guess since I don't
know
what options exist for a 6400 printer - you mean IP running over
Ethernet so
the conversion would be SNA to IP - yet again.
I used 6400's connected through SNA, the medium was Ethernet.
However I used PC with emulator for printer session, so in fact SNA was
terminated at PC, not printer. It could be impossible to "talk in SNA"
to any regular print server - I doubt if they support SNA.
BTW: IP over Ethernet seems to be more flexible than SNA over Ethernet.
Although ethernet can be switched and then repeated, IP can be (easily)
routed.
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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