Re: Secure Internet Connection via MS SNA Server

> Reply-to:      MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com

> on 01/14/98at 02:34 PM,  our friend "Peter Schaefer"
> <peter@netserv.ouac.on.ca> said:
> 
> 
> >We're looking for a secure way to permit our users to gain 
> >interactive access to our AS/400 via the Internet.  
> 
> >After reading the promotional material for Microsoft's SNA Server, it 
> >appears to be a viable solution:
> 
> >Client <------Internet------>NT Server 4.0<-----LAN------>AS/400  
> >                   (TCP/IP)               &                   (SNA)         
> >                                           SNA Server 3.0
> 
> >Anybody doing this?
> 
> on 01/14/98,  our friend "Booth Martin" added:

> I log on to one client's AS/400 this way, and to another client's AS/400
> directly.  The second way is a whole lot easier.  Security seems prettty
> good on both systems so far, imho.
> 
> It is unclear to me what additional security is provided by going through
> the NT Server.  What is added by  that choice?
>
Sorry, I wasn't very clear in my original message.

The SNA Server promo states: "Encryption client-to-server and 
server-to-server (SOGA) traffic ensures your user name, password, and 
data will remain secured even across the Internet."

I'm wondering if anyone is using this encryption.  And what their 
reaction is to the product.

Thanks again.



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  Peter Schaefer                                                              
  Manager Computer/Operations                                    
  Ontario Universities' Application Centre                     
  P.O. Box 1328                                                
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  Guelph, Ontario, CANADA                                      
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