Re: Firewall to protect AS400

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhui@xxxxxxx>]

 > Linux on an old Pentium!!!

LOL! My brother is a full on Linux Guru and he would concur.  Their company
writes JAVA on NT, but ALL of their servers including Firewall, File/Print, Web
host, Email etc are on Linux.  They haven't bought a server yet - they use the
cast-offs from the JAVA programmers!

Jim Oberholtzer mentioned that the IBM Firewall was tough to set up.  I guess I
would have to disagree on that although not if it is your FIRST one.  Our
experience however is that it is not perfectly stable.

I have worked with the SonicWall and it has a reasonably simple Web 
configuration
and the newer ones have DMZ capability.

  - Larry


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 > -----Original Message-----
 > From:   franz99@attglobal.net [SMTP:franz99@attglobal.net]
 > Sent:   Saturday, November 06, 1999 12:32 AM
 > To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
 > Subject:        Firewall to protect AS400
 >
 > I am seeking opinions on a firewall for our network. We need to provide
 > web access to an  AS400 for a Customer Order Entry/Inquiry. Customer
 > does not have a tremendous budget. We need to support telnet(perhap IBMs
 > Host On Demand), printing(lpr/lpd), ftp serving, and e-mail. There are
 > several NT servers in the network, mostly for cd-rom serving and RAS
 > dialin/out. I don't know whether to put the AS400 Firewall in the box,
 > or keep it outside the 400. Any help appreciated.
 > Jim Franz
 > Systematic Control, Inc         jfranz@sysctl.com
 >
 > BTW - a little web humor (clean), http://www.thepentiums.com/
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