UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi,

I am trying to configure an ip address, netmask, and default gateway on my solaris machine. For example, in Linux I would do the following command:

#ifconfig eth0 xx.xx.xx.xx netmask 255.0.0.0
#add route or route add default xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

In Solaris 10, I believe the commands are similar, but I don't know what my interface is (in the example above it was eth0), but in Solaris 10, I can't figure out what it is. Can someone provide me steps on how to set up my network interface on Solaris 10?

Thanks in advance for your help

Hi,

Okay, from research I found out that I can do a dmesg to see what my interface name it. When I execute this command, I get a lot of stuff back. Is there anything in particular I can grep for?

does 'ifconfig -a' give you a list of all your devices?

ifconfig -a lists lo0. I thought this was my lookback and that I should not modify its address, which is current 127.0.0.1

See this thread

When you run the dmesg command, you may find your interface but not know it - if it's a Sparc system then look for hme or qfe (possibly some others). But I think you have a Intel with Solaris X86 which the link should help with.

I tried a few commands on a Solaris 10 box. The best I could find was:
prtconf -D | grep network
That will give you the driver name. If you don't know how the driver operates, you can do a man command on the particular driver. But this is on a Sun-Fire V240 and I'm not sure if it works as well with other hardware.

Hi,

I have followed the instruction in the "Configuring Networking" Guide for Solarix x86 (By the way, this was a great guide), but I still can't get my two machines to talk. I have a Solaris 10 (Intel box) and a Windows XP box. I connected a cross over cable and tried to ping the other box, but they can't see each other. The network configuration is below:

Solaris 10 (Intel)
Ip address 10.0.0.2 netmask 255.0.0.0 default gateway 10.0.0.1

Win XP
Ip address 10.0.0.3 netmask 255.0.0.0 default gateway 10.0.0.1

I know the crossover cable works, because if I hook up 2 windows boxes, the 2 can ping each other. I don't understand why my Solaris box cannot ping my Win XP box. Any ideas what may be wrong