how to link x86 Solaris 10 system to the Internet?
Hi, I have an x86 Solaris system linked on the network at work. We have DSL, and all the Windows PC's on this network can access the Internet with no problems.
On my x86 Solaris, I am trying to use commands such as "wget" to access to the outside world, and it's not working. How do I configure this x86 so that it can communicate to the outside world, so I can use "wget"? Thanks.
Is your Solaris system configured with proper IP address? Can you ping Windows PCs from the Solaris system? Do you have DHCP server in your network? Post output of those commands executed on Solaris box:
Yes, I can ping from the Solaris x86 to the Windows PC and vice versa. The DHCP server on the network is the DSL router. The Solaris x86 has a static IP address set up inside /etc/hosts. There's no proxy. The Windows PC can access the web without problems. I simply want to run a wget command from my Solaris system to yahoo.com.
Here are the results that you asked for:
Code:
# ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
rge0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 192.168.1.12 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 0:16:e7:16:56:1b
# netstat -rn
Routing Table: IPv4
Destination Gateway Flags Ref Use Interface
-------------------- -------------------- ----- ----- ---------- ---------
192.168.1.0 192.168.1.12 U 1 1342 rge0
224.0.0.0 192.168.1.12 U 1 0 rge0
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 44 2904681 lo0
#
You need to set your DNS servers statically too. Without those, you can't talk to domain names, only IP addresses. That's done through /etc/resolv.conf, which should have one or more lines like
Code:
nameserver 142.165.21.5
where the IP addresses are perhaps your router and your ISP's own DNS servers.
Once you save the file, the settings should take effect immediately.
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I'm not especially familiar with Solaris routing tables, but pointing your server's gateway address at itself seems a bit of a catch-22. Maybe that should be going to your router, presumably 192.168.1.1?
That actually looks like correct routing - almost. If you look closely, the "destination" column consists of networks. I don't see a default route though.
What's in "/etc/defaultrouter"? It should contain something like "192.168.1.1", or whatever the OP's router IP address actually is.
Once you save the file, the settings should take effect immediately.
Not necessarily. /etc/nsswitch.conf should list dns as a backend for host resolution.
But why doing it the hard way ?
The OP windows OS is flawlessly connecting to the Internet because it is very likely configured to use DHCP, which automatically does all the configuration.
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