RE: Question about Packet Rules

Tom,

I'm still on V5R1, so you'll need to double-check this.

RMVTCPTBL TBL(*IPFTR)
will remove all IP filter rules.

Do you have a terminal that does NOT connect via TCP/IP? If not, activating
packet filters may lock yourself completely out of the system (ask me how I
know!). What I wound up doing was creating a CL program and command that
would submit a batch job to perform the RMVTCPTBL command and schedule it
for a time specified in a command parameter. Then when I was ready to try
out some changes to the packet filters, I would run the command and pick a
time several minutes into the future. Once that "deadman switch" job was
scheduled, I could then activate my packet rules. If all went well, I would
just delete the scheduled job. If I goofed and locked myself out, the job
would run and remove IP filters and I could get back in.

Good luck!
Richard Casey



-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Tom Hightower
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 11:00 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Question about Packet Rules


(v5r2)

I'm considering activating Packet Rules filtering, but before I do - is
there a green-screen way of deactivating a rule (just in case I get too
restrictive)?

Tom