Not exactly true. An IP address is just an IP address. It's like saying that RFC 1918 addresses can't be routed to the Internet - it's absolutely not true, and if you look at the addresses hitting the outside of your firewall, you'll see plenty of them. They *shouldn't* be routed to the Internet, but they often are, by clueless admins, or by faulty firewalls, that don't handle NAT properly.
Bryan can use those addresses, and set the workstations up with a DG, and also set up a router that has the DG IP address assigned to the workstations. It could even be a secondary IP address on that router's port for that subnet. Another alternative is to set up a proxy server on the same subnet in the same address range, and set up IE and other apps that understand how to use a proxy to use that proxy, which can then forward on the requests out the firewall. That proxy server would probably also have a secondary address that is used to exit the subnet, so that they can be routed to exit the network. Kurt On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 09:07, Andrew Levicki <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bryan, > If you mean 169.254.x.x then you're out of luck as that is an APIPA address > and APIPA cannot be routed to other subnets, (which includes the Internet). > See http://www.petri.co.il/whats_apipa.htm for more info. > Regards, > Andrew > > 2009/12/9 Bryan Garmon <[email protected]> >> >> Today is one of those days where my brain is just not working well. I >> could use some help. >> >> I have a virtual 2003 AD test environment running under VMWare Workstation >> 7 including DNS,DHCP. Each virtual is configured to use vmware's bridged >> networking and I am using 169.x network for all of the virtual lab machines. >> It's bridged and not nat'd because I have several phyiscal machines that >> need to communicate with the virtuals. This works great except for 1 problem >> - none of the virtual machines have internet access. >> >> I have not configured any of the virtuals to have a default gateway. >> >> The host machine and the rest of my network is 10.x. >> >> How can i get the 169.x network to have internet access? >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
