RE: Firewall in AS400

["Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes... exactly.

I agree that an AS400 is an expensive firewall, if bought for that purpose,
but also why spend the extra money for a system (or hardware) that is
dedicated for that? You have an AS400 that you use already. Just allocate
500 mb of storage to a linux firewall and save $500 - thousands of dollars.
As far as separating the firewall from the system. What good does that
really do? If the hacker breaks in, he is still in your network. Plus
remember this is IBM speaking, and the buzz word of the day is server
consolidation.

-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Palmer [mailto:neilp@dpslink.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 11:07 AM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Firewall in AS400


The theory is you run a firewall on same system in a Linux partition that
has dedicated LAN ports (not shared through OS/400).  Not on a dedicated
400/iSeries box.

...Neil





Dr Syd Nicholson <sydnic@ccs400.com>
Sent by: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
2002/04/11 12:40
Please respond to midrange-l


        To:     midrange-l@midrange.com
        cc:
        Subject:        Re: Firewall in AS400


Might be OK in a large shop, but small shops can't afford it. Besides
who would spend over $70,000 on an iSeries to run Linux when the exactly
the same benefit can be achieved with a PC costing less then $3,000. Its
only a firewall, doesn't need a vast amount of expensive hardware, just
a fast processor amd plenty of memory.

Syd Nicholson


Wills, Mike N. (TC) wrote:

>I should clarify, that is what I was told at a recent class on the WDT.
They
>suggested a linux firewall partition first, then your web server, then
>another linux firewall, then your database.

>
>
>How does one sell an Iseries , touted as being Internet and Intranet
>friendly without some type of Firewall software?
>Load Linux?
>Is it just me?
>

>
>
>Linux in an LPAR.
>
>
>Dear All,
>
>Does anyone know about Firewall Product in AS400 ?
>
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Fery Gideon
>AS400 Maniac's





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