Re: AS400 to Internet through Proxy server.

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From: Bleddyn Williams <bleddyn@morpheus.ltd.uk>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Friday, February 26, 1999 2:28 AM
Subject: RE: AS400 to Internet through Proxy server.


>Hi Gerald can I confirm a few things.
>
>1/ Are you saying that the Proxy box is doing NAT (Network Address
>Translation) is it acting as a proxy based firewall? Is so what firewall
>proxy product?
>
The Proxy is a brand new Linux box, running Squid as the proxy. Yes,
The proxy box is doing the NAT.

>2/ What OS/400 release is your 400 on V430?
>
I am at V370 right now, will be on V430 in April.

>3/ If you are interested some of the people in IGNITe/400 have been looking
>at NAT and IP routing and filtering under OS/400 and may be able to help
you
>out.
>
>4/ When you say you tried to create a route did you aim at the proxy server
>as the default gateway if its doing NAT to get to the router?
>
Yes I tried to create the route to the "internal" address of the proxy box.

>5/ If you are on V430 did you know the 400 can do the IP forwarding, NAT
and
>proxy serving for HTTP clients for you without the need for the firewall?
>
I read about that in NEWS400.  The problem I may have is that we really do
not want the Router directly on the network. So the AS/400 does not see the
router because of its External IP address.
>
>Thanks
>Bleddyn
>
>http://www.ignite400.org/ your AS/400 Internet/Intranet questions answered.
>


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