Re: [PCTECH] VPN questions

[John Ross <jross-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is also VNC  http://www.realvnc.com/ for remote access.

Unless your TCP/IP session (not the AS400 session) is timing out I would 
not expect an AS400 session to drop very often. There are settings on 
the AS400 you can set to try to keep the TCP/IP session active
http://www.midrangeserver.com/tfh/tfh100702-story05.html

MochaSoft TN5250 also has a keep alive setting, and has less overhead 
the iSeries Access.

John Ross

Vern Hamberg wrote:
> To add to the mix -- if you run iSeries Access through a VPN, you are at 
> the mercy of your Internet connection. It is very likely you will lose 
> the connection to your interactive session. This is why we use Remote 
> Desktop - it is like PC/anyWhere. If your work machine is an XP Pro box, 
> you can leave it running, after you have set it up to allow remote 
> users. From home, once your VPN is connected, you can run a Remote 
> Desktop client (available for all flavors of Windows - well, not 3.1 for 
> you Luddites out there - rejoice!) that you point at your work machine. 
> If the connection goes down, as it might, then your work machine is 
> still running with the emulation - all you need to do is reconnect the 
> VPN & the RD client again - cha-ching!
>
> There may be reasons why your network security folks won't allow this - 
> see if there is some way they will, because it is TRES cool not to have 
> iSeries Access fall down all the time. Besides, it is very slow over the 
> 'Net. And you don't need to install iSeries Access at all.