On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, 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.
>
> 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.
Easy, if your default gateway is pointing to a hostname that's defined in
/etc/hosts, and not to a specific IP address.
Even under Linux you can do it, vis-a-vis
route add default my-gateway
As long as the host "my-gateway" is defined in /etc/hosts with a valid IP
address, then your routing table will hum along just fine.
DaZZa
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