Re: AS/400 Firewall

["Jeffrey M. Silberberg" <silbrbrg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

        Yes, My understanding is that to minimize potentional violation 
 they, (as most Firewall products do) removed most of the underlying OS
 and the Firewall IPCS is only usable is a Firewall, and a network gateway 
 to the Secure/Unsecure LANs. 

        Jeff Silberberg 
        CompuDesigns, Inc.

On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Jeff Crosby wrote:

> > Yes, the AS/400 can protect the entire network. You need an entire IPCS
> > card dedicated to the firewall.
> 
> When you say 'dedicated' do you mean the IPCS can do no file/print
> serving?  If it's a firewall, it does zilcho else?
> 
> -Jeff
> jlcrosby@fwi.com
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