Peter Rundle wrote:
> > > I would have thought that you just change the value
> > > in the file, etc/hosts and then reboot the machine.
>
> > No, that won't work on any system that I know.
>
> Well it works on Solaris 2.7.
>
2.6 etc ;)
>
> Since we are way off topic already, can any of the Solaris
> guru's out there clarify how/why a Solaris box can find the
> default gateway when all I do to move it to a different
> network is edit the entry in the /etc/hosts file and re-boot.
>
is it rdisc? (It's been a little while since I have seen a Solaris box.)
It does a router discovery on boot-up.
>
> Cheers
>
> Pete
>
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