I can see some VirtualBox VM's being set up to try this one out! Thanks for all your help so far :)
On 22 Jun 2010, at 18:08, James Carlson wrote: > Ben Lavery wrote: >> On 22 Jun 2010, at 17:24, James Carlson wrote: >>> I'm another person using OpenSolaris with in.dhcpd (Solaris DHCP) and IP >>> Filter for NAT at home. There are several of us out here so if you (the >>> original poster) have questions after reading through the documentation >>> and trying out the commands, post them here. >>> >>> -- >>> James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <[email protected]> >> >> Thanks very much James, Ill keep that in mind :) >> >> I will need to use NAT won't I? The ADSL router will get an dynamic IP from >> my ISP, then it will assign an IP to the zone, the zone will then reserve >> this to my other clients through another set of IP addresses... > > I don't know your network, but given that brief description, yes, it > sounds like you'll probably need to configure NAT. > > I've never used NAT with non-global zones (just with external devices -- > my OpenSolaris box acts as the default gateway/firewall for the rest of > my network), but I'm sure someone else here has and can give details. > > Note that NAT and address assignment are really two separate things, and > you configure and manage them separately. NAT allows you to configure a > private subnet where the traffic in and out of the subnet is translated > so that it looks to the rest of the IP universe as though it comes from > one (or a small number of) public IP address(es). Address assignment > within a network (public or private) can be static or dynamic. > > Step 1, though, is reading through the documentation. I'd suggest > simplifying things by getting one part working at a time -- starting > with (say) NAT. > > -- > James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
