RE: Connect via PC

No chance of getting a static IP?  

Eric Kempter
Director of MIS
Commair Mechanical Services

-----Original Message-----
From:   Larry Bolhuis [SMTP:lbolhui@ibm.net]
Sent:   Wednesday, July 22, 1998 7:34 PM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Re: Connect via PC

Neil, Alan ....

OK Already,  It ain't gonna work.  The address you have assigned to your
AS/400 will not be known by the ISP the PC is connecting to. Because of
this the ISP will never route any packets back to the AS/400 even if the
PC manages to send AS/400 packets to the ISP.  The only way to get this
to work would be if the PC is running some type of software that does
NAT (Network Address Translation) and I have not seen any PC software to
do this (yet).

  Larry Bolhuis
  Arbor Solutions, Inc
  lbolhui@ibm.net

Neil Palmer wrote:
> 
> Hmm - if you had a default route configured to point to the PC's IP
> address (which probably changes every time you dial up, so you'd need to
> constantly alter it) I suppose in theory it should work.
> 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alan Novick [SMTP:anovick@bellatlantic.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 1998 4:28 PM
> > To:   Midrange-L
> > Subject:      Connect via PC
> >
> > I have a PC connected to my AS/400 via TCP/IP.  The PC can also dial
> > my
> > internet account.  Can the AS/400 access the internet (ftp for
> > example)
> > through the PC?  What configuration steps do I need to take?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Alan Novick
> > Pressman Toy Corporation
> > New Brunswick, NJ
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