Re: Internt Security & the AS/400

["James W. Kilgore" <qappdsn@xxxxxxx>]

Steve Glanstein wrote:

> Hello all:
>
> Jack's note poses a problem that is common to many businesses and I thought
> I'd take a stab at it...
>
> First, he proposes to have Internet access to everybody on the Ethernet
> rather than just an AS/400 or a stand-alone PC.  Second, he is asking the
> question that all of us want to answer: How about TELNET/FTP from home.
>

We are going through a similar exercise and are using a dedicated PC running
LINUX as a file/print server and router.

You can use a router ($700-$800 for Netopia) to act as a proxy server to hide
your actual network or in our case we chose to install a dedicated 486 running
LINUX to perform proxy/print/HTTP serving taking the load off the AS/400.

Although LINUX technically is a free OS, companies package together LINUX with
applications and provide support services and charge for this packageing and
distribution.  We chose the Caldera Standard version ($399 list) at the
headquarters for it's inclusion of the Netscape FastTrack Web server.  The Base
version ($59 list) uses the Apache server and although the branch locations 
don't
do any web serving we use it for the proxy/print serving.

This works well for the small branch offices (5 users each at 3 locations) with
static IP address via ISDN to TELNET and I have a similar setup at home (static
IP address).

Let us know what you finally configure and use.

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