Re: Remote Access (Again) -- MIDRANGE-L

An easy solution (depending on firewall in use) is something like
Cisco VPN. It's no too hard to setup. I vpn from home to the
local network and sign on to the network. Then I start Client
Access (or Rumba or Mochasoft or whatever).
The network guy emailed me the Cisco client, and 2 minutes later
I was in via dsl. The Cisco client acts as a personal firewall
while it is active.
jim franz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Booth Martin" <Booth@MartinVT.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 4:37 PM
Subject: RE: Remote Access (Again)


>
>  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.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Booth Martin   http://www.MartinVT.com
> Booth@MartinVT.com
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
> -------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.
> --
> Ed Marczak
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