> I read up on the Communications Server for Linux, and it sounds pretty sweet. > Perhaps I can sell that to the SNA network folks to ease the migration off the > 3745s. ;)
It is. It's exactly the kind of thing that Linux on zSeries appliances were meant to do. Also read up on Communications Controller for Linux, which is pretty much a direct 3745 emulator -- you can run your existing NCPs on it and it pretty much drops into the same spot in the network as the 3745s did (with a bit of bother wrt to getting serial ports redirected from external routers via DLSw, etc). Both are bears to implement, but they're involved in SNA networking -- did you expect anything else? -- db
