RE: Accessing AS400 Through Port Redirection

Hi Jonathon,

I have a similar setup at home with my model 800 and can access this across
the web using the Mochasoft TN5250 Java application which runs in a web
browser.  It seems as though you have your AS/400 setup to display web pages
and these can be seen within your network.  I had to set up my router to
redirect requests from ExternalAddress:4000 to InternalAddress:80.  Once
this was done I then had to set up a routing entry so that the AS/400 could
see the outside world, this is done by setting up a default route in CFGTCP
(option 2) pointing to the IP address of your router.  This can be tested by
pinging an external host or IP address, you may also need to set up the DNS
servers in CFGTCP (option 12).  When you need to access the AS/400 from
outside your network, you will need to specify the port on the HTTP request.
Once this is set up, you will need to install and set up Mochasoft if that
is what you intend to use.


Thanks,

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jonathan Mason
Sent: 19 January 2005 11:06
To: Midrange-L
Subject: Accessing AS400 Through Port Redirection


I have a model 150 running v4r5 at home which is connected to my home
network.  I also have a cable broadband connection to my network with a
static IP address and a Draytek Vigor 2104p router peforming NAT and Port
Redirection.

I want to be able to access the AS/400 over the internet, and have set up
Port Redirection to map a specific port to the AS/400 (for example Port 4000
being redirected to the AS/400's port 80).  However, when I try to connect
from outside of the network I get no response from the AS/400.  Looking at
the router, I can see that the Port Redirection has generated the correct
address and port, but the AS/400 doesn't pick it up.

Is there anything that needs to be configured on the AS/400 that I may have
missed?  I can see web pages from within the network, but not from the
outside.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated.

Thanks

Jonathan


Jonathan Mason
www.astradyne-uk.com

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