Re: Remote Access (Again)

["Adam Lang" <aalang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

very very bad.

If you need people outside to access internally, you want to setup a VPN or
dial up.

You need to control who can access your network.

Adam Lang
Systems Engineer
Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company
http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Marczak" <erm@rainstormstudios.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 2:58 PM
Subject: Remote Access (Again)


> Thanks to everyone who pointed me in the direction of Greenstreak and
other
> utilities.  While we may look at a new AS/400 soon, I have to get back to
> getting some people remote access right now.
>
> I need to allow certain people to access our AS/400 using Rumba and
Arpeggio
> (part of Rumba) over the Internet.  I've done some traces and I've found
> which ports to open on my firewall to make this work.
>
> My real question:  What are the security implications of leaving ports 23
> and 449 open to the world?  If it's too nasty, I guess I'm looking at a
VPN.
> I'd like to avoid that just for the end-user confusion it causes.
>
> Thanks for any tips on this.
> --
> Ed Marczak