Re: iSeries to the Internet... almost?

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave

I don't think you can use the same next hop from different subnets. You 
need the address on the inside of the router that is in the same subnet as 
your iSeries. It'll be x.y.1.z, probably, for some number z. Ask your 
network person what the gateway is for the subnet where your iSeries is.

HTH and HIAR (hope I am right)
Vern

At 04:50 PM 5/27/2004, you wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I forgot to take my smart pill this morning because it's not 5:00 yet and
> I've already run out of good ideas.  I'm not sure if I've got everything
> set up on our iSeries to get out to the Internet.  Ultimately, I'm going to
> write a socket program to send a file from the system to an Internet site.
> Since we've never connected it to anything outside of our LAN/WAN I wanted
> to make sure that I could.
>
> For starters, I can ping a site from my PC and get a response but if I ping
> the same site from the iSeries it times out.  It does however resolve the
> IP address of the site from the DNS.  I've tried increasing the WAITTIME of
> the ping but it didn't help.  The NEXTHOP value in CHGTCPRTE is the same as
> the default gateway on my PC.  My PC is however on a different subnet with
> an IP of x.y.15.99 and the iSeries is x.y.1.101.  I can do a TRCTCPRTE from
> the iSeries to the site I want to connect to and it looks like it's getting
> through (although I'm not experienced with this command).  I've also tried
> Scott Klement's example #1 program from his socket tutorial but it blows up
> on when issuing the connect().  We do use a proxy server for PC's but I
> haven't seen anything for configuring the iSeries to use it too.
>
> Thoughts?  Ideas?  Can I get there from here?  Any ideas are appreciated.
> Thanks.
>
> Dave Parnin
> Nishikawa Standard Company
> Topeka, IN  46571
> daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx