Re: AS400 connectivity VIA the WEB....

[Vance Stanley <w_vance_stanley@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, for all the feedback. I am kinda doing this on my own because our network guys are short on resources to look into things that are really low priority items. Anyway, it looks as though I have things to investigate.  Again, Thanks!

  nina jones <ddi@datadesigninc.com> wrote:

> > Thanks, I have client access already and I am
> > connected to an AS400 via the net. However, I want to
> > add a connection to get into a different box. The
> > AS400 in question is part of a WAN and its I.P.
> > Address should be only accessible from within the WAN.
> > But, I can ping to sites outside of the WAN from this
> > box which makes me think that the AS400 might not be
> > behind the firewall.
> > I do not understand this area all that well so I may
> > be way off base. Anyway, Judging from your answer it
> > may be that I need to research this area before I ask
> > more questions.
>
>
> just because you can ping out does not mean that your as/400 is outside
> the firewall. you most likely have an internal addressing scheme and
> the router does all the communication to/from the outside.
>
> nj
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