If the VM stack and the linux stack were both connected to a VSWITCH,
would monitoring function in the physical switch see that clear text
data is being transfered from VM to linux?

/Tom Kern

Alan Altmark wrote:
> On Wednesday, 08/27/2008 at 06:20 EDT, Michael Coffin 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Oh Drat.  :(
>>
>> We have a mandate that ALL FTP must be secure FTP, and it's going to be
>> enforced very (VERY) soon.  We may have to continue doing the darned
>> intermediate file method in order to use the CMS FTP client.  :(
> 
> I would use a Linux FTP proxy running next door to TCPIP that can connect 
> with ftps.  Think of the proxy as 1/2 of the FTP client.  Taken together 
> they constitute the "originating host".  The network interface on Linux 
> and the network interface on VM TCP/IP could be thought of as two 
> interfaces on the same IP stack.  The phrase "FTP proxy" need not come up 
> in any conversation.
> 
> Alan Altmark
> z/VM Development
> IBM Endicott
> 

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