Re: iSeries to the Internet... almost?

Thanks John/everybody for the responses.  Yesterday the network guy had
said that my connection should have been OK.  Since pinging an Internet
address was working from my PC but not from the iSeries I thought that it
was an iSeries configuration issue.  Today I got together with the network
guy again and this time he asked if I could specify the packet length of
the ping.  The default was 256 bytes and the firewall was rejecting it
because it was over 64 bytes.  Who'd have thunk it?  Not me.  Now that I
know that it can get out I can start working on getting a socket to
connect.  Thanks again.

Dave

Dave Parnin
Nishikawa Standard Company
Topeka, IN  46571
daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx





                                                                                
                              
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I would would check what the gateway is? Most likely a firewall of some
sort. And your
AS400 probably does not have a public address so something is going to need
to to NAT for
it, which I would assume something is already doing that for the PC since
most PC's do
not get public address. If the gateway is a firewall find out what the
rules are for
getting out and then see how your AS400 fits those rules. I would also ping
the gateway
from the PC (to see if it answers Pings) then ping from the AS400 to see if
you get there
or not. And since your networks are so different they may not even be the
same gateway.
They may have the PC behind a cheap router to do DHCP and NAT and maybe
some other stuff.
And severs on another network segment.

It really would be easier if you talked to a network person there who knows
your network.


John Ross
IBM Certified Specialist AS/400 RPG IV Programmer
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