Re: TCP/IP Dial-In to AS/400

On Thu, 05 Mar 1998 15:30:21 -0800, qappdsn@ibm.net wrote:

>> what do you think about allowing customers to dial in to our AS/400 using a
>> TCP/IP connection via an ISDN Router or a PC in our Ethernet LAN?
>
>You may want to have the connected PC do the actual serving.  As updates are
>available for publication they can be placed on the PC.  If you have an older 
486
>sitting around you could toss a copy of Red Hat or Caldora's distribution of
>LINUX on it and either the Apache web server or Netscape server software and 
keep
>people off your 400.

Thanks to you - and the others - for your reply. Perhaps my question wasn't 
clear enough. Hope this time it's better...

Our AS/400 and our workstation PCs are connected via Ethernet using TCP/IP. 
We're thinking of allowing our customers to dial-in to a PC or an ISDN router 
in our network. These users are only allowed to access the 400's http server, 
no ftp, no telnet etc. But for our local PCs telnet etc. is required.

We could use a static IP address for the customer dialing in, maybe there's a 
possibility to grant only http access for this IP address? And what about 
securing our local PCs? There are no ftp, telnet or other daemons running on 
the PCs. Best would be if they were simply invisible to the customer (no ping 
etc. possible).


Bye, Christian

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