Re: AS/400 Access via the Internet

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

We are also a small company in terms of numbers of users & size of IT staff.
The other guy got our VPN hooked up with help of a consultant & I watched 
from a distance & not comprehend the details.

Previously we used leased phone line from ma bell with AS/400 at HQ & Perle 
box pretending to be a cluster of remote controllers at the other end.  As 
far as ma bell was concerned we were Point to Point, while as far as AS/400 
concerned we were Multi-Point (big bucks ma bell difference).  Both AS/400 & 
Perle were hooked up to modems with ma bell in between.

Modems got replaced with Cisco router stuff & ma bell point to point got 
replaced with VPN.  Advantage of VPN was that we can sent AS/400 data, PC 
data, faxes between our facilities, multi-point for real with ma bell, voice 
communications over same line, and it costs a whole lot less than phone lines 
leased for each thing.  Our remore site people dial some phone line & it 
connects them to a local phone line at HQ city.  The AS/400 still thinks it 
is talking to modem to dedicated phone line to Perle.

It is a miracle, but I not know any technical details.

> Chuck,
>  
>  We are a small company with no LAN but we do have frame relay. 
<  Not to drag you into explanation, but how does a VPN figure into this ? 
>  I.E. do I get a "box" to
>  do VPN and then it gets to the AS/400 over the IP "network", etc ?

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)
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