Ok, currently my situation is I am unable to get my solaris 8 box on the Internet or communicating with my network. I had the solaris box setup for DHCP and was not getting a IP address. I then set my own IP to 192.168.0.10 which is an excluded address in my windows network. I have set a default router as 192.168.0.1 and have set the resolv.conf file domain name to the domain and name servers with the ip address of 192.168.0.2 which is my windows server ip address. I have set the nsswitch.conf file host to dns. When I do a ifconfig -a this is the result:

lo0: flags=1000849<up,loopback,running,multicast, IPV4> mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000

elxl0: flags=1000843<up,broadcast,running,multicast, IPV4> mtu 1500 index2
inet 192.168.0.10 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
ether 0:60:8:96:9:db
inet6 fe80::260:8ff:fe96:9db/10

Someone please shed some light this way I don't know what to do now.

seems to be ok... maybe post all files mentioned above to check them for errors.

Also, please post your routing table

Cheers,
ZB

Ok, here is all the files that I know of starting with the default router file:
192.168.0.1

nsswitch.conf file:
passwd: files
group: files
# You must also set up the /etc/resov.conf file for DNS name
# server lookup. See resolv.conf(4)
hosts: files dns
networks: files
protocols: files
rpc: files
ethers: files
netmasks: files
bootparms: files
publickey: files
# At present there isn't a 'files' backend for netgroup; the system will
# figure it out pretty quickly, and won't use netgroups at all.
netgroup: files
automount files
aliases: files
services: files
sendmailvars: files

resolv.conf file:
domain ins.local
nameserver 192.168.0.2
nameserver 192.168.1.254

routing table (netstat -rn:

Routing table: IPv4
Destination Gateway Flags Ref Use Interface

192.168.0.0 192.168.0.10 U 1 0 elxl0

224.0.0.0 192.168.0.10 U 1 0 elxl0

default 192.169.0.1 UG 1 0

127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 24 1999 lo0

Routing Table: IPv6
Destination/Mask Gateway Flags Ref Use If

fe80::/10 fe80::260:8ff:fe96:9db U 1 0 elxl0

ff00::/8 fe80::260:8ff:fe96:9db U 1 0 elxl0

default fe80::260:8ff:fe96:9db U 1 0 elxl0

::1 ::1 UH 1 0 lo0

Let me thank you guys for all your help Let me know if you need anything else.

i don't know about ipv6 but the rest looks fine for me... maybe disable the ipv6 config and try again without that.

You are all over the place here.

Let's start with the basics.
First, delete resolv.conf. You don't need it right now and I doubt you have 2 DNS servers running in your home network.

Ok. So the IP address you set on the Sol8 box is 192.168.0.10, and the default route is 192.168.0.1, all masked for /24 (255.255.255.0)
The output from netstat -rn you posted shows your default route to be 182,169.0.1, whe it should be 192.168.0.1 .

The following commands are going to delete the wrong route, add the correct route, and edit the defaultrouter file, which needs to be there correctly or you'll lose your default route after a reboot.

Verify that the default route took:
... and try pinging it:
Can you now ping your default route?

i missed the 169 in the output

@system shock
you post is even wronger "182,169.0.1" but its a typo .