On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 05:23:03PM +0200, Andreas Höschler wrote: > > >>After reading several guides from Sun about the Sun-Ray-Software and > >>DTUs my basic question remains: Is is possible to run a DTU behind a > >>NAT-gateway without configuring the router?
> >It works for me with a Sun Ray 1. I have a private network at home, > >using ipfilter on a Solaris machine as a NAT router. To make it work, > >I only needed to set up Sun's DHCP server on the Solaris machine to > >serve the private network. Older Sun Rays can only be configured > >through DHCP. I don't use any special NAT rules for the device. > > > >I only need to take my Java card home to get my work session at home. > > This in interesting. If this works I have a lack of understanding. > Where does your sun ray at home know which srs server to connect to? That's set in a DHCP option. This is all described in the Sun Ray manuals. It's the same DHCP option that's normally set on the DHCP server that runs on the Sun Ray server. > And what is a Java card? Are these the normal cards from Sun we use for > years with sun rays. As far as I know they are stateless and just carry > some unique id!? Unless you have configured your Solaris router (DHCP > server) in a special way, making it pass the ipaddress of the srs > server to the sun ray I wouldn't expect this to work. Yes, that's the same card. > Moreover without ugly utilization/configuration of open vpn on both > sides the data between your sun ray and your srs server is transmitted > not encrypted, isn't it? That's correct. -- -Gary Mills- -Unix Support- -U of M Academic Computing and Networking- _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
