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-
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