RE: Connect via telnet to the internal AS/400 from the internet.

[Chris Bipes <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do you have a default route on your AS400 to your Linksys Router?  I would
first enable SSL for your AS400 Telnet server and open 992 not the unsecured
23.  But either way, you will need to do one of the two:
1. have a default route to your Linksys router
2. NAT inbound at our Linksys router to your internal IP scheme.

I would: ADDTCPRTE RTEDEST(*DFTROUTE)
          SUBNETMASK(*NONE) 
          NEXTHOP(LINKSYS router IP address)  

-----Original Message-----

> Hi everybody
>
> I am not so sure whether this is the right platform for my question but i
> hope i will get your help and  answers.
>
> We have an AS/400 on our internal network.  We can connect to it via
telnet
> on the internal network, from any client.  We have a DSL internet
connection
> with a single external IP and a Linksys router.  We have forwarded TCP
port
> 80 on the Linksys router to a Windows Web Server and it works perfectly.
>
> We similarly want to be able to connect via telnet to the internal AS/400
> from the internet.  We have forwarded TCP port 23 on the Linksys router to
> the AS/400 , but unable to connect.  We get the message "Could not open
> connection to the host, on port 23: Connect Failed".
>
>  Any help would be greatly appreciated.