In the general case, your PC has an IP address for each interface. I don't know your example setup, but I hope this helps to pose the right questions:-
It depends on where your VPN endpoint is. If you VPN to the site where MVS is running, then you should have an IP address on that subnet, as well as the public IP address you started with. Any traffic through that tunnel is encrypted as far as the endpoint. If you VPN to an endpoint at one of the many providers, you'll have a public IP address at the endpoint, and this can be a fixed IP address if your VPN provider does that. Typically, for most of your Internet traffic, once the VPN is up, the public IP address you started with (probably the address of the Internet-facing side of a broadband router) is no longer important. The tunnel has effectively plugged your machine in at the VPN endpoint and how it does it is transparent. I hope this helps, at least a bit. Roops On Mon, 29 Jul 2019, 10:46 Robert Prins, <robert.ah.pr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2019-07-28 09:59, tim.popes...@gmail.com wrote: > > I know what not to do....but I don't know what to do, that's the point. > > I installed a free VPN, used the 'what is my IP' and was able to PING to > it from MVS. However when trying to open a FTP session I get > > Connecting to: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port: 21., > > Connection to server interrupted or timed out. USER command failed. > Switch be, > > tween users not accepted as anonymouslevel = 3, > > Any idea what it means ? > > Did you set up the Windows firewall to allow FileZilla to accept > connections? > I've been using FileZilla server the way you use it for years, and never > had any > problems. FWIW, if you do not have a static IP address at home, create an > account on noip.comto give yourself a "static" address. > > Robert > -- > Robert AH Prins > robert.ah.prins(a)gmail.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
