[brandz-discuss] getting networking going in an lx zone

[James C. McPherson]

Russ Blaine wrote:
...

> dhcp vs non-dhcp shouldn't make a difference.

Good. I spent some time wondering whether I was still sane with this
problem :|

> Can you ssh into the global zone, or just ping it? And did you follow 
> the ipnat setup in Ed's blog exactly?

off-hand I can't remember whether I could ssh to the global zone. I'll
try again (reboot ...) and let you know. I did follow Ed's blog exactly
though.

> One thing I don't see mentioned there which I remember having to do for 
> my own setup of ipfilter is turn on IP forwarding in the global zone. I 
> don't see that in Ed's blog, nor in Mike Ditto's.
> bash-3.00# ndd /dev/ip ip_forwarding
> 0
> 
> Try turning it on:
> 
> bash-3.00# ndd -set /dev/ip ip_forwarding 1
> bash-3.00# ndd /dev/ip ip_forwarding
> 1
> 
> See if that makes a difference.

did that, no dice  :(


thanks again,
James C. McPherson
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