Re: firewall & proxy server

Bob,

It sounds like an under-powered box but I don't have Domino nor do I have a 
model
620.  I have a model 170-2164 which has an interactive performance rating of 29
and we have 512MB of RAM and 32GB RAID-5.  We're on V4R2 and I'm going to go to
V4R4 most probably in September.  It is our only box.

When you say that your box is "not very responsive for email or web services",
are you saying it is very responsive to the rest of the workload?  I can't see
how it could do everything fine except email and web services.  Are you maybe
overloading the interactive portion of the box?  Online queries, accounting
package doing things interactively, etc.

Our setup is very simple.  128 ISDN line to a CISCO 1004 router to the AS/400
(soon to be ADSL-faster/cheaper).  The AS/400 is is doing the firewall, proxy,
smtp, pop3, telnet, etc.  E-mail client at the desktop is Netscape Communicator.
One of our remote offices is using Client Access over the Internet to us.  Web
surfing is great.  Our own web site only has our address up so don't look.
Intranet is simple.  All other offices around the world sign up to any ISP they
want (IBM mostly) and point their e-mail settings to our AS/400.  That way
everyone has the same @rachisholm.com and they don't have an e-mail size limit.
We have a second domain setup on our AS/400 for another business.  People within
local calling dial-in to our IBM 8235 and do e-mail and web surfing.  No need to
sign up for Internet at home.

I don't know what other information I can provide.  Let me know.

Glenn Gundermann
Ronald A. Chisholm Limited
Toronto

Bob Randall wrote:

> Glen,
>
> I do not like being negative about this subject, and your note is extremely
> positive. I am using Domino on a 620, w/V4R2, and it is not very responsive
> for email or web services. The 620 is also my firewall & proxy server. Email
> is using only POP3 clients. Other applications run on the 620, but Domino
> can really kill them at times.
>
> The setup I describe was partially decided on because it would position us
> to do some web services integrated with the rest of our information
> services. That does not justify email on this box, but it seemed somewhat
> sensible to use it for email since I was thinking of Domino for web
> services.
>
> Can you relate some of the particulars about your setup? That might help me
> to understand if I am just trying to use an under-powered, or under-sized
> box for what I am doing, or if there is just some setup problems. I would
> not even qualify as a rookie on AS/400 setup, so setup problems are indeed a
> possibility. I would like to be able to continue on this path in a positive
> manner if it really is feasible. I am installing more memory to try and help
> remedy the situation.
>
> TIA,
> Bob Randall
> Airxcel, Inc.

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