TCP/IP Routing and Load Balancing on the AS/400
This session will cover routing techniques that can be implemented using features that have been added to TCP/IP for OS/400 Version 4. These features can be used to enable load balancing across systems and/or interfaces, as well as to provide a level of fault tolerance using Virtual IP addresses, Numbered and Unnumbered networks, and Point to Point connection definitions.

Fant Steel   is a Senior I/T Technical Specialist on the e-business team in the AS/400 Advanced Technical Support Group located in Rochester, MN. Prior to joining this group, Fant spent two and a half years as an Advisory ITSO Specialist for AS/400 in the International Technical Support Organization (ITSO), Rochester Center. While in the ITSO, Fant wrote several redbooks on communication and e-business topics. Fant also taught classes and seminars worldwide on many areas of AS/400 communications technologies and e-business. He spent eight years as an instructor and developer for the AS/400 communications and programming curriculum of IBM Education and Training. Prior to joining IBM in 1989, he worked on S/36 to AS/400 code conversion, VM/MVS systems programming, and applications programming for the manufacturing industry.