RE: Turn off PING server on AS/400

[michaelr_41@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

The only certification I ever gained (I'm not one much for
certifications, but I was working with a BP and we got some goodies or
something) was on the AS/400 firewall. Hardest test I ever took. And then
IBM dropped it. 

On Wed, 12 May 2004 14:54:08 -0700 (PDT), "James H H Lampert"
<jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > There used to be an IBM firewall product for the iseries.  Dropped a few
> >  releases back.
> 
> Having dealt with it, we were more than a tad frustrated that IBM decided
> to abandon it instead of fixing it so it would work without being such a
> pain in the *equus asinius,* but given that Linksys routers with
> firewalls
> are a dime a dozen, and work somewhat better than the AS/400 firewall
> did,
> it's understandable.
> 
> Hardest part was converting from Token Ring to Ethernet, with most of our
> boxes long-since-unsupported.
> 
> --
> JHHL
> 
> 
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