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Re: VPN questions

To add to the mix -- if you run iSeries Access through a VPN, you are at the mercy of your Internet connection. It is very likely you will lose the connection to your interactive session. This is why we use Remote Desktop - it is like PC/anyWhere. If your work machine is an XP Pro box, you can leave it running, after you have set it up to allow remote users. From home, once your VPN is connected, you can run a Remote Desktop client (available for all flavors of Windows - well, not 3.1 for you Luddites out there - rejoice!) that you point at your work machine. If the connection goes down, as it might, then your work machine is still running with the emulation - all you need to do is reconnect the VPN & the RD client again - cha-ching!

There may be reasons why your network security folks won't allow this - see if there is some way they will, because it is TRES cool not to have iSeries Access fall down all the time. Besides, it is very slow over the 'Net. And you don't need to install iSeries Access at all.

JMHO
Vern

At 02:23 PM 8/4/2004, you wrote: 
Esteemed listers,

I am going to be taking home the iSeries Access and Cisco VPN Client install
CD-ROMs so that I can connect to our iSeries from home.

I am told that, once I activate a VPN connection, I lose my ability to surf
the internet at large from my ISP.  (I am told that I will only be able to
access the iSeries; the rest of the network will be unavailable via remote
access.)

Is this the nature of VPN?

FWIW, my connection is via cable modem, and I am using a GigaFast router.

>From the manual: This router supports only PPtP Packet Pass-Through.
Neither L2tP (Layer 2 Tunnel Protocol) nor IPSEC (Internet Protocol
Security) are supported.  The router itself does not have a VPN function.
It allows PPtP Packet Pass-Through.

tia,
db

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