Re: can't ping AS/400 from outside

["Leif Svalgaard" <leif@xxxxxxxx>]

thanks everybody.

----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Borts <andrewb@setacorporation.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 10:46 AM
Subject: RE: can't ping AS/400 from outside


> You Need to point the AS/400 to your router... using option 2 of CFGTCP
> -Andrew Borts
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leif Svalgaard [SMTP:leif@leif.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 9:26 AM
> To: List Midrange
> Subject: can't ping AS/400 from outside
>
> Ok folks,
>
> This has me stumped:
>
> 1) given a network with AIX, Webserver, and AS/400
> 2) network connected to internet
> 3) from PC connected to interne (5000 miles away)
> I can ping AIX, get pages from the Webserver,
> but all attempts to ping the AS/400 times out.
> 4) Can ping the AS/400 from PCs on the intranet.
> 5) All IP addresses are correct.
>
> Why can't I access the AS/400 from the outside?
> No firewall problem that I know of.
> Any special configuration for this needed on the AS/400?
>
> TIA
>
> Leif Svalgaard
>
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