TCP/IP Routing

TCP/IP Direct Connect is a Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) compliant adapter driver. TCP/IP Direct Connect makes the PCI ESCON Adapter appear exactly like any other Network Interface Card (NIC) to the Windows server. As a result when TCP/IP Direct Connect and a PCI ESCON Adapter are installed along with one or more Local Area Network (LAN) adapters the Windows server becomes a multihomed system.

Microsoft’s Windows 2000 and NT TCP/IP protocol stack is capable of performing static IP routing in multihomed servers. Static IP routing may be used to route TCP/IP traffic across the PCI ESCON Adapter to the IBM mainframe. This chapter discusses how to configure both your network and Windows server to take advantage of this capability.

Sample Configuration

207.168.12.67

207.168.12.1

207.168.12.68

207.168.12.2

 

 

207.168.12.3 207.168.12.65

207.168.12.66

207.168.12.4

Figure 5-24. Network with 2 Subnets

Figure 5-24 shows a simple network made up of two sub-networks connected by a router. A single Windows server is installed on the Token Ring. Windows 95 and /or 98 is installed in all workstations. An IP subnet mask of 255.255.255.192 is being used to allow for four subnets with IP addresses as follows:

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