Thanks Garrett, I will review for possible items to include in the FAQ...

Thanks,
Brian

On 8/18/07, Garrett D'Amore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You might want to have a look at the documentation I wrote for my
> ethernet drivers.  Its at
>
> http://sol-enet.sourceforge.net/GUIDE.html
>
> or if you prefer PDF:
>
> http://sol-enet.sourceforge.net/GUIDE.pdf
>
> You'll need to rip out the references to etherdiag (which was a utility
> I shipped for my ethernet drivers, but which I'm no longer providing
> since dladm and ndd provide most of the same functionality), but some of
> the other bits may be useful.
>
>         -- Garrett
>
> On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 21:06 -0500, Mike Gerdts wrote:
> > On 8/17/07, Brandorr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Is there an OpenSolaris networking FAQ? Also, I am working on a FAQ
> > > for new users, and would like to know if a) I am missing any common
> > > networking questions, and b) my answers are correct.
> > >
> > > http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ_Prototype#Networking
> >
> > The "primary IP address" question doesn't really have the right
> > answer.  hostname(1) does not return an IP address and as best as I
> > can tell, there is no such notion of a primary IP address.
> >
> > The best approximation for a good answer on a reasonably configured
> > single-interface system would be:
> >
> > getent hosts `hostname` | awk '{print $1}'
> >
> > But that assumes that the system is reasonably configured and that
> > people agree with me on what is reasonable and that you don't have
> > multiple interfaces.
> >
> > I *wish* I could tell Solaris what its primary interface is.  This is
> > a common pain point when many physical and virtual interfaces exist
> > and authorization (firewall, NFS, etc.) is performed
> > by IP address.
> >
> > Mike
> >
>
>


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- Brian Gupta

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