RE: How to make my iSeries at home available to outside programmers

["Hall, Philip" <phall@xxxxxxxx>]

Richard,

> At home I have a small network of PC's all connected and sharing a
> single cable modem.
>
> My question is - What is the easiest way for me to give access to my
> iSeries to people outside of my home network?

Firstly, you'll probably be breaking the T&C of your contract with your ISP, 
almost all of them prohibit the use of any kind of 'server' (be it http, ftp, 
telnet, or whatever - including the clients for p2p file sharing al la 
Audiogalaxy, Gnutella etc)

> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Secondly, you'll need to install a router/firewall combo that has NAT 
capabilities. The router connects to your ISP one the IP address 
'outside_ip_address' they issue. All your internal machines connect to the 
router. For outside access to one of your internal machines, say telnet, 
configure the router to NAT 'outside_ip_address:23' to 
'internal_ip_address_of_as400:23'

With the router/firewall providing the 'mapping' (NAT) from the outside world 
to your inside LAN.

But be very careful, once you open the doors, all the nasties will come 
sniffing...

--phil