[Sunhelp] sunPCi question

[Fuerst, Robert C. (Chris)]

Last time we tried using a sunpc sbus card there was a "addendum" sheet on
installing it with windows 95 and how to work the routing. We could get the
thing to talk around the subnet but never through to the other machine on
the other hubs.  The way that worked is each had to have it's OWN IP address
so your are on the right track.  If they have the same subnet you should not
be having all those problems with routes (or even need them), so I am with
Greg on that one.  You did fix the hosts file correct?  You may also need an
ethers file.
Without calling technical support from the company we never would have known
about it.
We eventually went with a windows terminal server and Citrix metaframe
environment anyway.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Gregory Leblanc [SMTP:GLeblanc at cu-portland.edu]
> Sent:	Saturday, April 29, 2000 10:19 PM
> To:	'sunhelp at sunhelp.org'
> Subject:	RE: [Sunhelp] sunPCi question
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Frank Sommers [mailto:fsommers at nowcom.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2000 5:08 PM
> > To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > Subject: [Sunhelp] sunPCi question
> > 
> > 
> > Hello, 
> > 
> > I finally bought a SunPCi card for my Ultra 5 which allows Win98 to be
> > used from within the same box. It installed fine, however, Solaris and
> > Win98 cannot talk to each other. According to the documentation, the
> > communication is arranged via TCP/IP. The two systems share the same
> > Ethernet card, and the only way for them to communicate is via a 3rd
> > device, e.g., a router. So I set up my old Solaris 2.6 x86 box as a
> > router. Now I have the following problem:
> 
> Ok, first I have to say that I've never used a SunPCI card (nor an Ultra5,
> but that's a different matter).  I have, however, been using VMWare, which
> provides a very similar service for x86 machines running Linux.  Now to
> try
> and answer your question.  I think that if you assign the Ultra5, the
> SunPCI, and the x86 box addresses on the same subnet, they should be able
> to
> communicate.  The only place that you <emphasis>might</emphasis> need to
> have any routing would probably be on the Ultra5, and the route would most
> likely be to point the address of the SunPCI card out the interface on the
> Ultra5.  This seems highly unlikely, because it feels too hackish.
> 
> Have you checked out http://docs.sun.com/ for information on this sort of
> thing?  I'm sure there must be something there...
> 	Greg
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