You can do anything on the built-in port that you can do on the other ports.
I have tried on an H50 to get OS/2 IP and VM/VTAM SNA to work together.
Never got it to work even though the RedBook suggests that it will. I DID
get it working on a T/R card, but then the rules are different. I had one
T/R so I moved the OS/2 stuff to it and used the built-in card for my
development VSE IP stack. Until they put a card into their Cisco, Volusia
Schools will have to have the T/R and a router to convert it to Ethernet.
For someone who is port-challenged, using a T/R and an external router
(maybe just a PC with both Ethernet and T/R) is a possible solution.
There are a couple of 'quirks' on the Ethernet ports. If you have an HMC, it
requires a dedicated adaptor (based on different posts in the past). There
is a very nice option for the 'dial-home' function where it can be set to
use IP instead of the modem, but it also requires a dedicated adaptor. I
have always recommended that anyone buying the MP3K get all 4 ports. If they
don't need one, they can use it for the dial-home until they need it for a
guest. Much faster to download patches than the modem.

Tony Thigpen.
Thigpen Enterprises, Inc.
Developers of VSE2PDF
http://www.vse2pdf.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom
Duerbusch
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 5:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: MP3000-H70's Ethernet Card Question


Are you sure about this?  If you are just using the OS/2 side to support the
Multiprise Console sessions (the couple sessions available from the OS/2
desktop), you really are not using the internal card.

If you are using the internal card to support OS/2s TCP/IP stack, then you
can
TN3270 into the OS/2 side from PCs out on your LAN.

BTW, we are talking about the internal card that is on the motherboard of
the
Intel system.  Not Ethernet cards that have been added to the system.

Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting

Alessandro Brezzi wrote:

> Dave,
> the answer is absolutely yes: the XCA node work fine for us, supporting
> Communication Server on both AIX and Netfinity servers; we have also some
> Personal Communication node. We use this for ECI and DRDA APPC request,
but
> also for 3270 emulation (2-3-4 model). I use VTAM usstab for this devices.
> You can share the same card for both OS/2 TCP/IP and OS/390 - VM - VSE
VTAM
>
> HTH
> Alessandro Brezzi
>
> At 04:45 PM 2/21/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >In a message dated 2/21/2002 2:39:44 PM Mountain Standard Time,
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> >
> > > Well, then it depends on what you consider "SNA to OS/390".
> > >
> > >
> >
> >I think we want to use the OS/2 SNA as an XCA device/node to OS/390
VTAM...
> >
> >Do you think we could do that while sharing the same card with OS2 TCPIP
???
> >The reading material makes me think this is "doable"...
> >Dave

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