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I have to do this twice.
First,
A) change IP address, subnet & default gateway.

then a few days later
B) change IP address again (same subnet & gateway) & hostname.

(why twice? To get the vlan stuff out of the way in advance)

what is the best way to do A?
can all be done through sam or is command line better?
what if I am not at the console but telnet into the machine?
can I do it all with set_parm or do I need to edit netconf directly?
is a reboot needed to take effect?

and for B)
what is the best way to just change IP & hostname.
is a reboot needed afterward?
can I do from telnet or do I need console?

HPUX 11.23 i64 and HPUX B.11.0

Lisa
HPUX 11.23 i64 and HPUX B.11.0

well, we tried this on the DEV machine -
used mangement console and sam to change the IP on the NIC & ROUTE to change the gateway
then made the vlan changes
we could then connect telnet using the new IP.
then used set_parm hostname to change the host name -- and of all things, that one needed a reboot.
so from this test sample, changing IP only - no reboot, changing hostname needs reboot.

Hi,
Can any one let me know that how can i manually assign a IP on the Intel platform running solaris 10 coz ,

when I fire the following command

ifconfig hme0 plumb
then i get ifconfig : hme0 : plumb ; no such file or directory

also I have tried to assign a IP in the Host file ( /etc/inet/host)
or /etc/hosts file and rebooted the system system but it didn't work out
I have also created a file name /etc/hostname.hme0 and manually added a hostname entry in it but that too failed

Also I have fire the following command

ifconfig hme0 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast + up

but that too fail with the same error hme0 no such file or directory
In the /etc I have only hosts file but , according to solaris it says that it creates a /etc/hostname.INTERFACE file say /etc/hostname.hme0 but there is no such file in /etc/dir.


I think Intel platform does not support this and for this we need a SPARC system if we want to assign a manual IP to the system Please do let me know..................

What about

# sys-unconfig

let me check is this is somewhat related to system-config-network as in linux ....

Hello,
I'm actually having the same problem. Im trying to install Solaris 9 x86 int oa vmware and I can't bring my network interface up. I never used Solaris before so I'm a bit confused about all this.

Thanks for your help.

Tex.