Re: Virus's on IPCS?

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I hate to give people ideas, but couldn't a program running on the
FSIOP/IPCS/INS run some remote commands and do some mischeif to the host
AS/400?

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com




>Vaughan--
>
>>As far as I'm aware, the IPCS can be affected by viruses as well as being
>>a carrier and forwarding onto other PC's, but viruses have no way to
>>access and/or delete any OS/400 objects.
>>
>>Is this correct?  As we're thinking of putting in an IPCS soon, and have
>>a rather large PC network
>
>A virus-infected NT Server running on the IPCS has the same likelihood of
>directly affecting AS/400 objects as a virus-infected NT Server running on
>an external server: none.
>
>What are your expectations with the IPCS card? What apps do you expect to
>run on it? Given that you have "a rather large" PC network, do you think the
>IPCS can scale well enough for you? How big is "rather large"?
>
>The IPCS card (whoops, make that the Integrated Netfinity Server), seems
>like a great deparmental file and print server to me, but I question its
>capabilities when it comes to serving up NT for lots of users. Just wondered
>what you thought.
>
>rp


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