Has anyone had experience in securing SAS/Connect through a firewall? We are concerned about opening a range of ports for IP communication from any source through our firewall and to our mainframe.

If you have identified another way to secure these ports so that only SAS can be using it instead of opening them to the world, I would be very interested.

Part of the problem as we see it is that we must have one open port available for each concurrent user of SAS/Connect connecting with this method. This means we can't just open one port for 5 users, we must instead have 5 ports.

Ideas?

Craig Collins State of Wisconsin Info-Tech Services Collicr1@mail.state.wi.us