Solaris

I wanted to configure a second NIC card on a different IP on my Sun E450 server.

Currently, I have hme0.

when I ran the command : ifconfig hme1 <ip address> netmask <subnet mask> broadcast + up

I got the following error message: ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS: hme1: no such interface

Any idea why. I though E450 have multiple NICs.

Thanks

hi,

you have physically installed the NIC, but not yet activate it.

ifconfig hme1 plumb --> "mounting" your NIC to the OS.

have a try

cheers.

I have not physically installed additional NIC. I thought the E450 come with multiple NICs....I might be wrong.

hi,

upssss...
so thats the problem,

ifconfig -a --> checking all installed NICs in the system,

and if you did not find the other NIC :

ifconfig hme1 plumb (if its a live machine/in production)

or

sys-unconfig will do machine configuration from scratch (hostname, NICs, ipaddr, gateway etc)

cheers.