ted wrote: > I am a developer getting started with Solaris 10 configuration. I > recently installed Solaris 10 and have run into an issue with network > connectivity.
I may be mistaken, but S10 is NOT opensolaris; if you have issues with S10, you need to talk to the services organisation who are very well versed in helping people in your situation. nevertheless, read on: > I have done much research on this and I was able to get communiction to > the internet established once, but the settings were lost on reboot. if you had indicated what research you had actually done, you may avoid being pointed to things you already know ... > Overview - The Solaris box is connected to a router which is acting as a > DHCP server. AMD 64 dual 2.6 nForce4+ integrated NIC > > > 1) I am not able to obtain an address from the router. Nor do I get a > respons back when I ping it. I get an IP etc if I boot into Windows so > phyicial connectivity is fine. 2) Upon reboot the device nfo0 as shown > using ifconfig -a has an IP of 0.0.0.0. 3) If I run ifconfig [hostname] > my machine gets the ip from the hosts file, but I would like to obtain > this from the router. > > GOAL - reach and obtain a DHCP from the router and have the changes > stick upon reboot. a few things you can do: - man dhcp - go to docs.sun.com and search for 'dhcp'. my knowledge of dhcp is very limited, but I think you shouldn't have /etc/hostname.<NIC> if you want that configured by dhcp. > /etc/hosname.nfo0 is that a typo? > netmask + 255.255.255.0 solarisX HTH Michael -- Michael Schuster Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion' _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
