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Solaris 9 Sun Hardware Platform Guide

PC Launcher Installation

SunPCi Requirements

In order for PC launcher to work, SunPCi and its host workstation must be able to ping each other by `name'. To do this, you must have:

Because of the network architecture of SunPCi and the way it shares Ethernet access with its host, the SunPCI and host cannot see each other on the network.

To work around this, use an IP routing system (a "real" router, another Sun system, an NT system, etc.) on the same subnet to act as a proxy router.

Note -

You must have account access to the IP router you have selected, since you must add two routes to it.

For example, based on following setup:

you need to do the following:

  1. On the host workstation:

    route add 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.3 1

    Note -

    You can add an /etc/rc script to make this happen at every reboot.

  2. On the routing proxy:

route add 10.0.0.2 10.0.0.3 0

route add 10.0.0.1 10.0.0.3 0 (or the equivalent)

Caution - Caution -

You must add routes to all three systems in this fashion in order for this to work. Do NOT assume that "standard network default routers" or anything else will provide similar functionality; they will not.

After doing this, verify that the SunPCi can ping its host by IP, and vice versa. Once that works, make sure the systems can ping each other by name; add entries to the appropriate naming services if they cannot. On UNIX, examples of naming services are DNS or /etc/hosts. Windows can use DNS or the hosts file as well. Consult your system administrator to add these entries, based on your setup. Once the systems can ping each other by name, PC launcher installs.

For further assistance with installation of SunPCi, refer to the following publications:

Installing PC Launcher Packages

See "Installing Supplement CD Software".