RE: Scanning the iSeries (IFS) for Viruses

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric, from what others are saying, those should be pretty fast. We don't 
have any, so I'm not sure. I was thinking about a 100mbps Ethernet 
connection such as we have.

HTH
Vern

At 09:50 AM 1/30/2004 -0600, you wrote:
> Vern,  what about IXS servers in the iSeries?  Do those devices make use of
> the VLAN in the iSeries for high-bandwidth access?  I REALLY know nothing of
> the new PC cards.
>
> Eric DeLong
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vern Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 8:32 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: Scanning the iSeries (IFS) for Viruses
>
>
> Can't speak for Tom, but scanning a machine, whether Windows or iSeries, is
> inherently slow because of communications. Everything has to be transferred
> to the PC in such a case. So native will be faster, unless the integrated
> solution works.
>
> Same lag occurs when trying to zip something on the 400 from a PC. Faster
> to download the thing, then zip it. Unfortunately, in my experience, jar
> and gzip (available free from IBM) are slower native on iSeries than, say
> WinZip, on a PC.
>
> MHO
> Vern
>
> At 08:54 PM 1/29/2004 -0600, you wrote:
> > > From: Tom Liotta
> > >
> > > Scanning from a PC out on the network is 'workable', but numerous
> >problems
> > > are overcome by having an iSeries native solution running instead.
> >
> >Really?  What sorts of problems?  I've always wondered about this.
> >
> >Joe