Solaris

Given a new Solaris box, with a fresh, unconfigured install on it, how does one figure out what kind of network interface it has (bge,le, hme, etc)?

ifconfig -a

that only works for configured interfaces.

@akbar
if you are on a sol10 system you can use "dladm show-dev". on pre sol10 systems try a "grep -i net /etc/path_to_inst" but that doesn't work for all kind of interfaces.

Code:

ifconfig -a plumb
ifconfig -a

Hi reborg,

This sort of works. It shows me one interface, "le0". I know that there are two interfaces in the box though. One is on-board, and the other is an SBUS card with both a SCSI and an ethernet interface. I have configured this "le0" device with proper networking, but cannot get it to contact the gateway by plugging into either port.

I don't know which card is the "le0", nor do I understand why there is just one shown logical when there are two physical.

When I go to OBP and do "show-sbus", I get the following:

<#2> ok show-sbus
SBus slot f SUNW,bpp ledma le espdma esp
SBus slot e SUNW,DBRIe
SBus slot 0 qec be
SBus slot 1
SBus slot 2 cgsix
SBus slot 3

Is there possibly a driver issue here? I did a "touch /reconfigure ; reboot", with no change.

Any ideas or suggestions you have are appreciated.

dladm show-link

to see all your physical interfaces

to get the other physical interface up, find out the interface name /w the cmd above and use ifconfig to bring it up.

Hi kungpow,

dladm does not work on my solaris 9 box. According to a previous poster, it only works on 10. Unfortunately, 10 won't install on this box as it is only a sparc 20, and is not supported.