RE: CAE with/with out SSL.

["Mark Villa" <markvilla@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

~~~Hello,
~~~
~~~I am getting ready to open the SSL ports of a firewall and issue
~~~certificates for remote CAE users. What I want to make sure
~~~of is that
~~~the users inside the firewall can continue without SSL while those
~~~outside must use SSL because those are the only ports open on the
~~~firewall. Correct?

Roger,

We could not get that to work without timeouts using a particular nat
configuration. We had a 192.168 and a 10.10 network that was trusted. We
needed explicit opening of non-SSL ports (at least for telnet). We do not
think it had anything to do with our lack of port ID knowledge of intended
use within CAE or the signon server. It was something to do with a Cisco
setting or the way Cisco handled nat'ting, we think.

We added an iSeries filter using ops Navigator to the iSeries IP card to do
exactly what you said above. Actually I like this better because it becomes
integrated with the asset we are protecting in our case. We agreed that
double protection would have been better.

In the meanwhile we learned a lot about PTF's for this area, depending on
release.

Fortunately, the iSeries filter works in sequential order, so you are able
to come up with some flexible rules. Based on this, I could make it work
anywhere no matter what the case given enough time.

Would be very interested in response here to your final method of choice and
why.


Mark Villa in Charleston SC