Networking question

[Shawn W. Laemmrich]

Ok, here's what I'm trying to do:

I have a sun, with a PPP connection to the internet. I also have a PC with an
ethernet card (and soon to go to NT). What I was thinking about doing is
connecting the ethernet board in the pc, to the one in the sun (since it's not
being used). I know this is all possible, but my question is, how do I get the
sun to talk over the ethernet tothe PC, and act as a gateway for it, then how do I
tell the PC to talk through the sun?

Thanks

Shawn

[Gene Ferioli]

Ok, the SUN system is connected to the Internet via PPP running tcp/ip.
Is the IP address static or dynamically assigned? Put the PC on the same
ethernet as the SUN (easily done using a piece of thinnet and two
terminators). Use the SUN's IP address as the PC Gateway address.

hope it helps..

Gene Ferioli za...@tiac.net

http://titan.ne.highway1.com

Shawn W. Laemmrich <swla...@mtu.edu> wrote in article
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[Peter J Naylor]

In article <58f4gm$e...@neon.chem>,

swla...@mtu.edu (Shawn W. Laemmrich) writes:
> Ok, here's what I'm trying to do:
>
> I have a sun, with a PPP connection to the internet. I also have a PC with an
> ethernet card (and soon to go to NT). What I was thinking about doing is
> connecting the ethernet board in the pc, to the one in the sun (since it's not
> being used). I know this is all possible, but my question is, how do I get the
> sun to talk over the ethernet tothe PC, and act as a gateway for it, then how do I
> tell the PC to talk through the sun?

Configure both interfaces on the Sun. You didn't say which OS you're
running, but if it's a recent Solaris, it should automatically act as a
router. Configure TCP/IP on the X86 box with the Sun machine as the
default router. This assumes the X86 box is assigned a valid IP by
whoever is at the other end of the PPP link or by the Sun, if it's the
DNS for your domain. That should do it... I think ;)

Good luck.

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[John McLeod]

This is my setup which sounds like what you want to do:

Sun connected wo PC running win95 and winnt via a 10base-t crossover
cable.

As far as the TCP/IP is concerned on both machine, I use static addresses
for each. Make sure you use ones which are not on the internet, good
choices are 192.168.0.xxx. So le0 interface on sun would have one static
address and the TCP/IP setting on the pc would have the other. Set the
default gateway on the PC to the same as the IP address on the PC. At this
point you should be able to ping each other. Next my sun dials up a
service provider via the solaris 2.51 ppp pakage. This should work fine,
you can set the default agteway on the pc to the ipdptp0 interface on the
sun to let the pc out on the net...

Hope this helps..

-John McLeod
mcl...@med.umn.edu
University of Minnesota

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