Neal;
You'll need to use a crossover cable (similar in concept to a null
modem); they're available from Black Box and other suppliers if you're not
equipped to make your own. Solaris does IP forwarding by default when two
or more network cards are installed - this should be turned off since you
don't want to route the console traffic to the network and vice
versa. Otherwise the networking is as usual. You'll probably want to use
the special range of IP addresses for isolated networks (they're not
routed) in case you eventually connect one of the machines to the internet
and/or your LAN - I can't remember the range offhand. The details of how
to do this are in the System Administration manual available on-line at
<
http://docs.sun.com/>.
Regards,
Alan
At 12:13 PM 1/11/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear AMMRLers,
>
>Has anyone out there sucessfully networked two SUNs via ethernet cards in
>similar fashion as one would to the console? Here's the deal: I have an
>Ultra5 (currently the spectrometer's host computer) which has an unused PCI
>adapter in it, and an older unused Sparc 4 which has the two original
>ethernet ports, one coax, the other 10/100BASE T. I would like to network
>these directly, since they are physically less then 10ft apart, instead of
>having the IT people add a new network line. I took a stab at it without
>sucess. Has anyone else done this who could comment?
>
>
>Best regards,
>
>Neal
>
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> Dept of Chemistry U of L NMR Facility
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