TCP/IP Over SNA

[Dewey Paciaffi]

In article <2812 at awdprime.UUCP> linas at linas.austin.ibm.com writes:
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-Let me try to answer this one...
-If you have a SNA network, there is no way in the world that
-you can hook up a Sun to it.  If you did, every airline reservation
-system in New Jersey would probably burp.

Don't tell this to my SUNs doing 3274 emulation...
 
-If you have Ethernet, well, just hook the /6000 to it. It'll work.
-Use sockets.  They'll work.  IBM TCP/IP is NOT implemented on top
-of SNA.  If you have to use SNA, call your IBM Mainframe service rep.
-The /6000 supports SNA, but you'll probably have to buy special
-hardware to hook up to your s/370 or 3090.

This seems to conflict with what I've heard elsewhere. I've been told that
the RS/6000 doesn't support SNA, but that SNA does support TCP/IP, with
the proper Hardware/Software/Mainframe configuration. If this actually	
is the case, then the RS/6000 TCP/IP should be just as easily transported
across the SNA as the TCP/IP from a SUN or a Xenix/386, for that matter.

Am I missing something here?
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Dewey Paciaffi
eddjp at althea.UUCP