Re: can't ping AS/400 from outside

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My first guess is your default route has not been set up in your AS/400 to 
"see" the
internet.  CFGTCP, take option 2 (Work with TCP/IP routes).

Then, you want to add your gateway to the routing table as the default route.  
Add
a line similar to:

                                                 Type
         Route               Subnet              of             Next
 Opt     Destination         Mask                Service        Hop
  1      *DFTROUTE           *NONE               *NORMAL        216.233.38.113

making 216.233.38.113 my default route if the AS/400 can't find the IP address 
anywhere else.

Other things you should consider:

Are you sure your AS/400 has a public IP address?  (It may have only a private 
IP address).

If this doesn't do it for you, post again and we'll see what else we can come 
up with.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 08:26:29 -0500
From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org>
Subject: can't ping AS/400 from outside

Ok folks,

This has me stumped:

1) given a network with AIX, Webserver, and AS/400
2) network connected to internet
3) from PC connected to interne (5000 miles away)
I can ping AIX, get pages from the Webserver,
but all attempts to ping the AS/400 times out.
4) Can ping the AS/400 from PCs on the intranet.
5) All IP addresses are correct.

Why can't I access the AS/400 from the outside?
No firewall problem that I know of.
Any special configuration for this needed on the AS/400?

TIA

Leif Svalgaard



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