RE: can iSeries handle nat for small pc network -- MIDRANGE-L

Pay a bit more, like maybe $250 and you gain VPN capabilities so people
can access office resources remotely.

As for reliability, these are cheap enough that you could buy 2,
configure both, and have one sitting around as a cold spare ready to
swap in if the main unit fails.

John A. Jones, CISSP
Americas Information Security Officer
Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
V: +1-630-455-2787  F: +1-312-601-1782
john.jones@xxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Graeb [mailto:egraeb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 11:19 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: can iSeries handle nat for small pc network

I think this would likely work well.  In our remote locations we run 4
port D-Link routers (with a hub if more computers).  They are our DHCP
servers, NAT, Easily configurable firewall, and work well with our VPN
software.  Of course it depends on how many computers were talking about
here and it's certainly not top of the line but for $50 at your local
computer store it might be worth looking into.  The routers we have
never have any problems.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:38 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: can iSeries handle nat for small pc network

Jim Franz wrote:
> Have a customer at v5r2 on small model 800 with single ethernet card.
> Changing isp, and new isp (Bellsouth) will not do nat or dhcp - they 
> only
deliver 
> a preprogrammed firewall (we can't touch) with public address. (For 
> over $260 mth they offered to manage "something" to do this). Current 
> isp had too many outages.

How many public IP's do they have?

Could you attach a consumer grade router (linksys, dlink, etc) to the
ISP provided router so you can have NAT & DHCP?

david

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