Solaris

The OP didn't provide all of the config, especially nothing about the DNS settings.

Hi,
In response to sparcguy, i didnt get your question, can you be a bit descriptive....

Also out of frustration i bought a new lan card
its a realtek 8139d...
its listed on sun HCL...
but am unable to use it...can you pls tell me how to plumb it and get that up and running atleast!!!

Thanks

I believe I gave you the instructions. Read post #12.

This is just a hunch, on your PC desktop open up your web browser(like firefox) go to

tools --> options --> network --> settings

And see if you are accessing internet thru any proxy that your organization may have?

If you are then go configure the proxy settings at web browser on your Sun server.

Btw maybe to isolate this problem you can try assigning a static IP to the interface first.
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To configure network settings.

1) plumb your network interface,
ifconfg <interface> plumb
ifconfig <interface> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx up
to test just ping localhost, resp means ok, no resp means not ok - check cables

2) cat /etc/defaultrouter (must contain IP address of your defaultrouter)
Test: ping to your defaultrouter

3) cat /etc/resolv.conf (must contain entries of your nameservers, if one on each line)

4) cat /etc/nsswitch.conf (manually add dns to end of host like so "hosts: files dns")

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what does netstat -r say?
please give output.

also what is the output for `grep network /etc/path_to_inst`?

ping localhost will work regardless of a faulty cable or not. I guess you really meant "ping <router ip>"

Hi all ,
I finally managed to set up network on solaris....
Thanks for all your help..

this is all i did,
ifconfig nge0 plumb
ifconfig nge0 192.168.1.57 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
and thats it...

Then i had downloaded the inetmenu packages, ran that module , however it did not work...
I thought i will give a shot at the browser, and then it worked!!!

Thanks again for all your help!!!