Re: Security with I-Net itself

aem@cyberhighway.net (Arthur Mills) wrote: :lets say someone spoofs the ip of a I-Net clinet :can they then talk to I-Net or does informix do :more checking than ip and user Even if they do it probably wouldn't be to hard for someone knowing enough to do this. They would have to find out of the protocol though, so I wouldn't be too conserned unless you have very interesting data sent over a communication line that is accessible to the wrong people. If this is a significant problem you might want to look into the Openlink ODBC driver which has an option to encrypt the data that is sent and thereby makes it significantly harder to spoof. It does of course not help if you are dependent on I-Net for use of NewEra or some other product. Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org