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Re: VPN questions

There is also VNC  http://www.realvnc.com/ for remote access.

Unless your TCP/IP session (not the AS400 session) is timing out I would not expect an AS400 session to drop very often. There are settings on the AS400 you can set to try to keep the TCP/IP session active
http://www.midrangeserver.com/tfh/tfh100702-story05.html

MochaSoft TN5250 also has a keep alive setting, and has less overhead the iSeries Access.

John Ross

Vern Hamberg wrote:
To add to the mix -- if you run iSeries Access through a VPN, you are at the mercy of your Internet connection. It is very likely you will lose the connection to your interactive session. This is why we use Remote Desktop - it is like PC/anyWhere. If your work machine is an XP Pro box, you can leave it running, after you have set it up to allow remote users. From home, once your VPN is connected, you can run a Remote Desktop client (available for all flavors of Windows - well, not 3.1 for you Luddites out there - rejoice!) that you point at your work machine. If the connection goes down, as it might, then your work machine is still running with the emulation - all you need to do is reconnect the VPN & the RD client again - cha-ching!

There may be reasons why your network security folks won't allow this - see if there is some way they will, because it is TRES cool not to have iSeries Access fall down all the time. Besides, it is very slow over the 'Net. And you don't need to install iSeries Access at all.


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