Re: want to allow easy home access to iSeries -- MIDRANGE-L

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But of course opening port 23 means "opening the IBM i to the entire
internet"...

I'm afraid the OP is asking for the impossible...opening a hole is
opening a hole..plain and simple.

I suppose you could only allow certain IP's in, but that's probably
not feasible given that the users would probably have dynamic IPs.

Charles

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:13 AM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 10/4/2011 9:54 AM, Burns, Bryan wrote:

What needs to be done on the IBM i and the firewall to allow a
Mochasoft emulator to be used without "opening the IBM i to the
entire internet"?

All you should need to do is open port 23 to the IBM i.

Although I would recommend you *NOT* open port 23 but use a VPN instead.

david

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