XP and Unix (Solaris) network help needed

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David E. Edwards

I have my XP home computer and a Win95 computer networked together and
sharing the internet.
I've added a Sun solaris box but am unable to access the internet from it.
I can ping the XP box from Solaris and ping the Solaris box from XP.
I can telnet from XP to the Solaris system.
What do I need to do to get internet access functionality from the Unix box
thru' the XP machine?

I've not been able to find any explanation on how to accomplish this.
Thanks for any and all help.
Dave E.
 
David said:
I have my XP home computer and a Win95 computer networked together and
sharing the internet.
I've added a Sun solaris box but am unable to access the internet from it.
I can ping the XP box from Solaris and ping the Solaris box from XP.
I can telnet from XP to the Solaris system.
What do I need to do to get internet access functionality from the Unix box
thru' the XP machine?

I've not been able to find any explanation on how to accomplish this.
Thanks for any and all help.
Dave E.
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Surely you have some documentation about Solaris to read there about
setting up networking. It's been years since I used a Sun machine, but
am familiar with Linux. You need to configure the Sun to use the XP
box as the "default gateway". This is all fully documented, I'm sure,
in the the Sun's documentation about networking. Failing that see the
Linux Network Administrator's Guide at the Linux Documentation Project
http://www.tldp.org/ and from that infer how to config the Sun... I'm
not sure how different Solaris is from Linux... probably not much
difference in this area.

In case your XP internet sharing not set correctly, check that. Read in
"help" by searching for words "internet connection sharing".

I would guess the firewall software on the Sun machine is more
functional that XP's built-in firewall. Consider using the Sun as your
gateway and implement it's built-in firewall. You could also consider,
for simplicity and effectiveness, using a hardware router/firewall
(Linksys, NetGear, etc.).
 
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