Testing the Connection

You can test the connection by setting the location for manual dialing.

set location nsb manual dial nsb -x

The -x parameter lets you see the connection/authentication messages in order to verify the connection. Make any necessary changes to the dial script and retry dialing until the connection succeeds. Once the connection is successful, verify that the remote NETServer is accessible through your local network.

For IP routing:

ping nsa

For IPX routing, NETServerB should show up on the SAP interface table. To see this table:

show sap

Verify that you can access a computer (not the other NETServer) at the remote site. For example, IP computers could use ping, rlogin or telnet.

If the NETServers were set up to dial from either end, you would then reset the ports to break the connection, and repeat the above steps from the other end of the line. In this case, however, only NETServer B is dialing.

When the testing is done, reset the ports to break the connection and then configure the location for on-demand routing.

reset s10 reset s11

set location nsa on_demand save all

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