RE: Setting up i5 for External Access

["Brian Piotrowski" <bpiotrowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Pete,

Our i5's internal IP address is 192.168.0.20 s/n mask 255.255.255.0.  I
can ping all internal devices, but when I ping external sites, I get an
ip resolution (i.e.: IBM.COM returns 129.42.16.103), but the ping
response fails.

/b;

-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Helgren [mailto:Pete@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 12:23 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Setting up i5 for External Access

I don't think the domain makes a difference.  I'd start pinging up the 
chain and see where you can no longer get a reply.

I don't believe that you have to restart the TCP/IP stack to get things 
working.

What is the IP address of the i5 and how is it subnetted?

Pete Helgren

Brian Piotrowski wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> Yup, according to the documents you gave me, everything appears to be
in
> order.  Most of the steps had already been performed, so I'm starting
in
> the middle of the steps.  According to the docs, it says:
>
> Configure a route:
> done - *DFTROUTE *NONE Next Hop: 192.168.0.2 (our L3 switch)
>
> Define local domain and host names:
> done - however, there is one question - in the "domain name" setting,
we
> have it set to "SPS.COM".  However, our true domain name is
> "simcoeparts.com".  The domain name server IP is pointing to our
Windows
> Domain Controller (192.168.0.23).  Will this dissimilar domain name
info
> make a difference?  If I change it to "simcoeparts.com" will it affect
> the live system?
>
> Define a host table:
> Done.  I have added in our HA software provider's IP address and host
> name.
>
> So I guess my only questions are:
> 1) Is the difference in the domain names a problem?
> 2) Do I need to stop and start TCP for the changes to take effect?
>
> Thanks!
>
> /b;
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rob@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 11:12 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: Setting up i5 for External Access
>
> I like iNav.  However it's hard to communicate graphics through this
> list 
> server so I'll stick to the character based interface for our
> discussion.
>
> First of all, did you do all the steps in:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/rzai2/rzai2c
> harbased.htm
>
> Rob Berendt
>