Re: cable router

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sure. But let me get the picture - they have a cable modem which connects 
to the outside of the netgear router, and the 400 connects on the inside of 
the netgear router? You need to open the telnet port on the router - the 
config is easy and browser-based, probably. Then you telnet to the router 
and it gets transferred into the 400.

This is not very secure - obviously the 400 security had better be really 
tight - no loosy-goosy passwords. But a better approach is VPN - netgear, 
linksys, belkin and others make VPN routers (less than $150) that allow you 
to connect to the customer's network as if you are on the inside. Windows 
2K and XP have security policy setups that allow this (ugly to set up but 
work once you get it right). And companies like Cisco have VPN appliances 
that probably have clients you use. This is basically what we have - works 
very nicely for us, with known exposures that are generally less than the 
first approach. (Yes, Jim O., we still have holes, but cost-benefit is OK 
for now.)   ;-)

HTH
Vern

At 09:13 PM 1/8/2004 +0000, you wrote:
> I have a customer that has cable internet access, a netgear cable router, 
> and an as400.  Can the cable router be configured so that the as400 can be 
> accessed with telnet remotely?  (This box is for development only.)  Has 
> anyone done it?
>
> I tried this once before but instead of a cable router the customer had MS 
> Proxy server and we couldn't get that to work.  We ultimately bought a 
> firewall device.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.  I hope to not waste too much time trying 
> to get something to work that can't work. ;-)
>
> Phil