On 11/9/07, Rick S. <jakekatz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure what to ask, but this is what I'm trying to workout...
>
> I have a Sun Blade 1500 (SB1500) running Solaris 10 update #3 (Yes, sparc,
> but it still applies).
>
> My SB1500 has two physical interfaces bge & qfe.
>
> bge0 goes to my LynkSYS router
>
> qfe0 goes via "Cross Over Cable" to my Windows XP Box.
>
> I would like to use my SB1500 as a 'network switch' (I think that's the term)
>
> LinkSys (router) = 192.168.1.1 (Running DD-WRT SP2)
>
> SB1500 (bge0) 192.168.1.200 (Default route set to router)
>
> SB1500 (qfe0) 10.10.10.1
>
> Windows XP 10.10.10.2 (Using RJ45 X-over adaptor)
>
> * SB1500 is good, it's on the internet
> ** I can ping Windows XP from SB1500, and vice versa.
> *** I can even ssh into SB1500 from Windows using Putty
>
> However, I can not ping router (192.168.1.1) nor get on the Internet from
> Windows XP box.
>
> How can I make Solaris be a network switch for my Windows XP box?
>
> I don't want to block any ports to my Windows box (LynkSYS router is running
> DD-WRT and doing that), I just want it to be able to access the Internet from
> Windows.
You'll need to
1) enable packet forwarding on your Sparc box
('svcadm enable ipv4-forwarding')
2) add a static route into your Linksys to tell it
that it reaches the 10.10 network via 192.168.1.200
alternatively you could do NAT, but that'll be messy.
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