RE: Attempting to map a drive from home to AS/400 IFS directory -- MIDRANGE-L

Vern,

Thanks for the info, I do have some experience using LinkSYS

I will look into this

John

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On Behalf Of Vernon Hamberg
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 4:23 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Attempting to map a drive from home to AS/400
IFS directory

Allen

At another job we got a LinkSys VPN router - it could handle
up to 70 
connections, if I recall correctly. Setup on the router was
pretty 
easy. It went inside our DSL modem, and we had a block of
fixed IP 
addresses. There were extensive step-by-step instructions
for setting 
up a client - no additional software needed - it involved
security 
profiles or something -

It was also possible to get a VPN router for home use that
worked 
automagically with the one at work.

But CISCO owns LinkSys now, so who knows what is happening
there.

HTH
VErn

At 02:23 PM 3/15/2007, you wrote:

Thinks for all the info so far.
This sounds like it is not a simple project.
I am going to have to do some reading on this topic before
jumping into a VPN

I do not want to have to hire a Network guy to maintain the
VPN

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Josh
Diggs
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 4:13 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Attempting to map a drive from home to AS/400
IFS directory

For a quick and dirty VPN solution, I've had success with
purchasing a pair of low end consumer grade VPN routers.

In

my limited experience, it is much easier to configure
similar settings on both ends of the connection than to try
to match settings in disparate products.  Another
consequence of this approach is that you're connection can
be set to be always available.  This is good for ease of
use, but bad for security.

A more secure and ultimately better solution is to use a
more robust firewall/VPN package whether appliance or
software based.  What you probably want to shop for is
something that uses a modern encryption method, and does

not

take a network engineer to set up and maintain.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Allen
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 12:40 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Attempting to map a drive from home to AS/400
IFS directory



Currently our ISP is Bellsouth (DSL Business Account)

In the past we have not really done anything remotely so we
have just been using the Standard Netopia router with a

Dell

Switch for accessing the internet and sending emails.

In the past we have not had any need to access our servers
or our iSeries or AS/400's.
But starting this year we would like have remote access but
at the same time we do not want to open our network up

being

hacked.

If we need to purchase some equipment such as firewall/vpn
appliance or Router etc. then that is possible.


John


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wayne
McAlpine
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 3:14 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Attempting to map a drive from home to AS/400
IFS directory

Allen, tell us a little more about your hardware and your
ISP.  Do you
have a Cisco router/firewall?  If so, I believe the VPN
software is
included with the hardware.

Allen wrote:

Sounds like I may need to contract this out.

Anyone on this list have the experience and desire to

set

this up for us (remotely) please email me offline

jallen@xxxxxxxxxxx

John


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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of

Tom

Liotta
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 3:24 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Attempting to map a drive from home to

AS/400

IFS directory

Allen wrote:

I have never setup a VPN

Is this difficult?
Is there an easy to follow document explaining the

setup

process?


John:

The _first_ thing you need to do is verify with your ISP

if

VPN is
allowed for your account. Some ISPs don't enable VPN for
personal
accounts, but instead want to charge for a 'business'
account or at
least charge for enabling it.

Setting up VPN will be _far_ more difficult if the ISP
blocks it and
you don't realize it. (I'd add a "<g>" but it really can

be

something that doesn't bring a smile.)

Tom Liotta

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