RE: Remote Access (Again)

["Booth Martin" <Booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Why?  Is the AS/400 the only internet machine in the World unable to cope
with Port 23???  All the other folks do just fine with it (except maybe
Microsoft).   I've worked with two iSeries machines that were on the
internet for over 5 years with zero troubles.  They were taken off the net
because the Windows Network people were plagued with viruses and all sorts
of disasters.  The Microsoft experts came in and as a part of the fix to the
Windows problems they pronounced that the iSeries was a wide open threat and
thank God they'd showed up in time!!

They didn't fix the Windows problems but they did deflect client
satisfaction by pointing out that they'd saved the day viz-a-viz the iSeries


Made me wanna puke.

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Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
Booth@MartinVT.com
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-------Original Message-------

From: midrange-l@midrange.com
Date: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 03:02:52 PM
To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Remote Access (Again)

23 will get you fired.

jch

-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Marczak [mailto:erm@rainstormstudios.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 1:58 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
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.
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Ed Marczak