RE: [FW1] IBM 5494 Connection

[David.Maas@FW1-NOSPAMiSKY.com]

Thanks,
And yes it is being used as a bridge or gateway, but not using IP traffic.
It is only passing SNA traffic. The 5494 controller will not have any ip
assigned to it. That is my problem. I do not see how I can attaches this
device off my firewall without an ip assigned to the Ethernet interface of
the device. Our client that we are setting this up for, does not use IP
traffic only SNA for their AS/400 systems. Any ideas? Can this be done?
Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert C. Wessel [mailto:rwessel@cfsoft.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 11:30 PM
To: David.Maas@iSKY.com; fw-1-mailinglist@beethoven.us.checkpoint.com
Subject: Re: [FW1] IBM 5494 Connection 


David,

Are your trying to use the 5494 as a bridge for IP traffic?  If so, then
there's not too much to do (other than setting up the 5494 and its partner
bridge), although I've never done it personally.  The local LAN will appear
to be on the same subnet as the LAN on the "other" side of the pair of
bridges, and the bridges (as always) will be transparent to the IP layer of
things, even though the 5494 is quite a traditional bridge.

You may care to check out the 5494 doc:

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves/CO20BK05

Chapter 8 of the "5494 Planning Guide" talks about the bridging support.

-Robert

At 11:24 AM 5/9/01 -0400, David.Maas@iSKY.com wrote:
>
>Hi,
>I have a requirement to have a IBM 5494 Remote Control Unit attached to our
>firewall.
>The unit is used with a AS/400 system on a distant end.
>We are going to have a T1 point-to-point between us and our distant end.
>Our client is configuring this 5494 Control unit to us SNA end-to-end. 
>The workstations will talk to this using IBM client access software pointed
>to the Mac address of the Ethernet interface on the IBM 5494.
>My question is how can I connect this unit to one of my available Ethernet
>interfaces on my Nokia IP440 Firewall without an IP address? Is this
>possible? If so any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thank you
>
>David Maas
>
>
>
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