RE: internet PTF service

It all boils down to the fact that the iPTF app lives on your PC and not on
some remote server in Rochester, MN.

How would your PC access the 400?  The internal address.  It makes no
difference what IBM thinks the IP is, IBM isn't doing the communication to
the 400, your PC is.

Now if you plug in the same IP that you use for a iSeries Access 5250
session and it doesn't work, then you have an issue.  Up until then, you're
trying to send PTFs to your firewall!  =)

jch

-----Original Message-----
From: John Taylor [mailto:lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 4:19 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: internet PTF service


Joe,

> I have a firewall which blocks nearly all inbound traffic.
> All my devices have 10. addresses.  My firewall maps port 80 
> for one realworld IP address to my AS/400 
> (www.plutabrothers.com actually runs on the > AS/400); nothing 
> else is allowed in to that machine.

This sounds very much like my own configuration.

> 
> When I do iPTF, I log in from my PC.  When it asks for an
> address, I give it my internal 10. address.  Everything works fine.
> 

This is new!! At no time did we try giving iPTF the INTERNAL address. It
was always the external firewall address that we used. I'll give this a
try later today.


John Taylor

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