RE:

I would strongly recommend getting a firewall device and placing all these
machines in the DMZ.  Otherwise, there is the potential to choke your AS/400
if one of these other servers has a lot of traffic.

-Chris

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Christopher A. Libby, Programmer/Analyst
Maine Public Service Company (www.mainepublicservice.com)
clibby@mainepublicservice.com (207) 768-5811 ext. 2210


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-web400@midrange.com [mailto:owner-web400@midrange.com]On
> Behalf Of Evan Harris
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 5:50 AM
> To: web400@midrange.com
> Subject:
>
>
> Hi guys
>
> we have a customer that wants to provide access to some boxes behind the
> AS/400 directly, but still maintain security. A suggestion that
> has come up
> is to set IP forwarding on on the AS/400 and use IP filtering to control
> the traffic that gets past the AS/400 (apologies if I haven't
> phrased this
> right)
>
> I have had a peek at the IP Filtering screens under Ops navigator
> but it is
> not as helpful as I would like, particularly not for getting
> started. Does
> anyone have any suggestions or samples to get this underway. I have
> configured the hideous AS/400 firewall in the past (it wasn't a complex
> configuration) so I have had some exposure to configuring firewall rules,
> but the IP Filtering screens and the firewall screens are light
> years apart.
>
> Any comments on the strategy our customer has adopted or how to
> get started
> and especially any perceived pitfalls are welcome.
>
> And of course feel free to ask me to make myself clear or provide more
> information :)
>
> regards
> Evan Harris
>
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