Re: AS400 Access from Internet

Herb Henry wrote:

> Company just received their 9406/170 and is interested in connecting to
> the Internet.

<<snip>>

At one of our sites the traffic is not sensitive information so we used the
built-in Telnet server.

We have a Netopia Farallon router, provided by our ISP, which is assigned a
static IP address. It can be configured to export services and we export Telnet
to the AS/400.  The router is about $700 and the ISP charges us $65/month
for 250
hours which covers M-F and some weekend time.  It's $1/hour after 250.

The connection to the ISP is a two channel ISDN which the local phone company
charges $80/month.  BTW, the router eliminated the need for a ISDN modem.  This
is a SOHO offering to sites with less than 20 phone lines.

The remote users are running Mocha Soft TN5250 ($25/seat .... $250 unlimited
license)

The traffic is low enough that it serves our needs.  At any one point in
time we
will have about 6 people connected.  We have noticed that certain times of the
day some larger companies are sucking bandwidth out of the net but it usually
doesn't last for more than 15 minutes and it's on a predictable schedule.

The ISP offering is intending for a network to have outbound access to the
internet and works very well for that purpose.  The router will disconnect if
there is no activity to stop the meter from running and comes back alive in
about
3 seconds.  The problem we ran into is the router does not wake up fast enough
for inbound traffic so we keep the router awake during business hours by
doing a
ping to a list of outside servers.

HTH,
James W. Kilgore
email@james-w-kilgore.com

BTW, this is a CISC box at V3R2.


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