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Passport SNA Network Configurations

The Passport 4400 SNA services allow you to connect to other nodes in an SNA network using either Ethernet (LLC2) or SDLC links. The Passport 4400 unit can support many SNA devices from a single SDLC port. Depending on the configuration of the network, there are three basic options for routing SNA traffic.

  1. SNA traffic can be routed locally over Ethernet using LLC2, as follows:

  2. SNA traffic can be routed over the existing network via a frame relay link using RFC 1490 BAN encapsulation, as follows:

  3. SNA traffic can be routed over the existing network using a PANL connection to another Passport 4400 or Passport 6400 unit, as follows:

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