RE: Connect via PC

[Neil Palmer <npalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Maybe you could use a "Black Box" that also happens to provide Firewall
services as well as NAT.
One was reviewed in News/400 recently:
http://www.news400.com/features/issues/jul98/firewall98/firewall98.htm 

It WAS called Interpol 1.6 but is now called SonicWALL Plus DMZ.
(I guess the Interpol fuzz objected to the use of their name !).


You can also check the manufacturers web site:
http://www.sonicsys.com/

Product specific page at:
http://www.sonicsys.com/Firewall/index.html

No I haven't used the product myself, and I don't:
a) Own the company
b) Own shares in the company
c) Hold patents on the Product
d) Sell the product
e) Collect a referral fee for recommending the product
f) Install the product for a fee
g) Have a pet Bee called Eric

:-)


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Bolhuis [SMTP:lbolhui@ibm.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 1998 11:34 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Connect via PC
> 
> Neil, Alan ....
> 
> OK Already,  It ain't gonna work.  The address you have assigned to
> your
> AS/400 will not be known by the ISP the PC is connecting to. Because
> of
> this the ISP will never route any packets back to the AS/400 even if
> the
> PC manages to send AS/400 packets to the ISP.  The only way to get
> this
> to work would be if the PC is running some type of software that does
> NAT (Network Address Translation) and I have not seen any PC software
> to
> do this (yet).
> 
>   Larry Bolhuis
>   Arbor Solutions, Inc
>   lbolhui@ibm.net
> 
> Neil Palmer wrote:
> > 
> > Hmm - if you had a default route configured to point to the PC's IP
> > address (which probably changes every time you dial up, so you'd
> need to
> > constantly alter it) I suppose in theory it should work.
> > 
> > Neil Palmer                                AS/400~~~~~
> > NxTrend Technology - Canada   ____________          ___  ~
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> > http://www.NxTrend.com
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Alan Novick [SMTP:anovick@bellatlantic.net]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 1998 4:28 PM
> > > To:   Midrange-L
> > > Subject:      Connect via PC
> > >
> > > I have a PC connected to my AS/400 via TCP/IP.  The PC can also
> dial
> > > my
> > > internet account.  Can the AS/400 access the internet (ftp for
> > > example)
> > > through the PC?  What configuration steps do I need to take?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > --
> > > Alan Novick
> > > Pressman Toy Corporation
> > > New Brunswick, NJ
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