John Andersen wrote:
So why can't you do that? Perhaps because the Solaris learning curve is a slow one for me.
You might need to hard-code its "soon-to-be-external" nic with an IP and make that single change when you promote it to router status, but other than that I see no impediment to having it serve as a dhcp server for your net. I suppose I could have it a fixed address in order to solve the DHCP problem but then it would make impossible to learn how to set it up to be a NAT router just like I have done in the past with SuSE. The interface that is currently on the home net is the one that will be connected to Comcast eventually. In order for me to learn how to make Solaris get a DHCP address on that interface and to learn how to configure ipfilter to do NAT routing with a DHCP interface, it has to be this way. Right now the home net is the ISP to the Ultra 20 so therefore something else besides the Ultra 20 has to serve DHCP. I am using the home net as a test and learning environment for Solaris. I don't suppose you have any experience with Solaris? While there are forums for Solaris, it isn't as good as this list and so far I haven't been successful in getting ipfilter to work.
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