DLSw support for SNA

[Alejandro Rosales]

How do I "support DLSw on a HP 9000 class D"?

I was recently asked this from IBM, because they are replacing hardware, and to increase reliability for SNA over our WAN.

As far as I know DLSw can be encapsulated inside tcp/ip, to avoid the LLC timeouts that slow SNA over a WAN, and is meant to replace SRB, but I don't quite understand how should my HP 9000 D class must "support it". Is this acomplished by installing new drivers? or a kernel parameter?

Can anyone shed a bit of light on this please?

[Ron Kinner · Accepted solution]

I guess this is what they think you might have:

http://www.insession.com/ice/default.asp

Normally your friendly router would take over the chore of stripping off the DLSw encapsulation and returning it to raw SNA. Apparently there are products which can eliminate the router.

I think it's a technology that HP picked up from Compaq since when you search for HP NonStop you get:

http://nonstop.compaq.com/

Don't see any indication that it has been ported to the 9000.

Ron