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=============================================================== In today's technical advice roundup you'll find tips, expert answers and input from your peers on the following iSeries administrator questions and concerns: Today's Featured Administrator Tip: -- Where to put a firewall when using partitions Answers to Other Technical Questions - VPN connections through firewall - Problem with partition speed - Run a query on a DDM file - Security certifications: Vendor vs. independent training Important Announcements and Links - Tips Contest: Win a Panasonic digital voice recorder - Search400.com member survey: What are your plans for 2003? - Free Book Excerpt: IBM eServer iSeries: Built for e-business - White Papers: Hundreds of free iSeries-related white papers - Monthly Newsletter: Top Expert Advice _______________________________________________________________ ****************** Previous Webcasts Archives **************** Take a look at these informative transcripts from previous webcasts: FTP Fundamental, Security, and Source Control Management tools. http://search400.techtarget.com/onlineEvents/0,289675,sid3,00.html =============================================================== Today's Featured Tip =============================================================== Where to put a firewall when using partitions Symantec's Enterprise Firewall for iSeries will be available in the near future. To get you thinking about how you would deploy a firewall product within an iSeries partition, this tip describes the advantages and disadvantages of several firewall scenarios. >> CLICK here to view the complete tip: http://www.search400.com/tip/1,289483,sid3_gci865384,00.html =============================================================== Answers to Other Administrator Questions =============================================================== VPN connection through firewall One user writes, "We have a Windows NT 4.0 server with Proxy 2.0 as our firewall. The server on the remote site runs on a Windows 2000 server and is configured with VPN. How can I configure a VPN on the NT box, making active VPN connections go through by the Proxy?" OS/400 expert John Brandt responds. http://search400.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid3_cid487634_tax285220,00.html Problem with partition speed This user upgraded his iSeries from a 730 to 830, and went from 4.5 to 5.1 of the operating system. He decided to use LPAR and have a managing partition and his production partition. He has two processors in his 830. The problem: He thinks his system should be extremely fast, but it's not. He's balanced his disk drives, given his production partition one and a half processors, and he still doesn't see a remarkable speed difference. He turned to the Search400.com OS/400 Discussion Forum for advice. Thankfully, "Dwitham" was on hand to offer some help. http://search400.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.ee84638/1443 Run a query on a DDM file One user writes, "We have two partitions on one box with DDM files between the partitions. A user wants to create and run queries over DDM files. Is this possible? Query doesn't recognize the DDM file as a legitimate file." Search400.com expert John Brandt explains that it is not possible to run a query on a DDM file and offers an alternative suggestion. http://search400.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid3_cid493900_tax285217,00.html Security certifications: Vendor vs. independent training Security has become a major concern for a lot of executives. So it's not surprising people are looking to security certifications to help them break into the field or give their careers a jump-start. 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