I wonder if ERI card supports virtual ethernet address? I just attempt to add another new one address to the eri0 interface,but failed. Any suggestions appreciated.

I have installed a quad ethernet card on an Ultra 2. The on-board NIC (hme0) is using dhcp to get IP from router, and I would like to connect it directly to the cable modem and use the quad card as my router. Can anyone help? WHen I connect the hme0 interface directly to cable modem, I can't ...

I am trying to setup adapter teaming ot trunking on my Sunfire V240 Servers. I was told that I needed the Sun trunking software. I have version 1.3 and am trying to configure it, but it does not like the naming conventions for the v240's interfaces. The V240 refers to them as BGE and not ge. ...

solaris 8 with 8_SunAlert_Patch_Cluster installed. It worked fine and nothing else changed. when snmpdx started /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx -p 50161 -y -c /etc/snmp/conf In the var/adm/messages error: Nov 9 11:41:03 solaview /usr/lib/snmp/snmpdx: [ID 702911 daemon.error] session_open() ...

hi i have sun enterprise 250 and 25 sunray terminal when i configured this terminals the dhcp is automatiquely configured for it. but an other person install too the dhcp in the same network, the result my sunray take'nt my dhcp adresses and take the dhcp adresse of that other person what ...

Anyone have routing working on Solaris 10? Running S10_72 on a Dell Gx110 w/ 2 NICs. Trying to set it up to replace my Netgear router (and eventually configure IPv6 tunnel). having problems getting it to route packets. I turned off all of my ipfilters for debugging. 2 networks 10.10.1.x ...

How to configure default gateway using /etc/gateways file (NO /etc/defaultrouter). The line "net default gateway ip_router metric 1 passive" produce the following error message: in.routed: bad net "default" in /etc/gateways entry "net default gateway ip_router ...

Hi, I'm using Sun Trunking version 1.31 with Solaris 9. The problem I am seeing is an error print in the var/adm/messages file Hardware address '<MAC ADDRESS>' trying to be our address but the mac address stated is the MAC Address of the *unit itself*, I could do with help with ...

Hi, I am trying to setup a virtual interterface on the same subnet and redirect certain traffic to a specific host through that virtual interface. I am able to reach the virtual interface before I added a route to try and redirect traffic for a specific host out that virtual interface. Any ...

Hi all, I m trying to configure multipathing in Solaris 8, but something doesn t work well. For testing purposes, everything is done with one switch and router, but it should not make any difference... My configuration is: root@cic # cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1localhost xxx.yyy.45.4isc ...

I need to install the Sun Trunking Software on Solaris 10. The install script is coded to only install on Solaris 7-9. What is the preferred solution for trunking ports on a Solaris 10 machine?

Iv just started using Solaris 10, can someone tell me how to turn DHCP off so I can assign a static IP address to the machine im working on? Thankx Dredz

Ok well I just installed Solaris 10 and I need to do a few things. I want to add a user other than root, but I cant seem to get to Preferences>System>...there is no add user or group. After this I would like to get all of my networking setup. I ran ifconfig -a and only get inet ...

Installed the Solaris 10 on Dell C600 machine successfully.After this I tried to configure my netowrk, by running sys-unconfig, it did not recognize my NIC card. I need to some help, so that I can connect to internet, oracle can help me with creatiion of database.

I'm trying to perform SNMP query for the specific OIDs as below, rsUserProcessTime "1.3.6.1.4.1.42.3.13.1.0" rsNiceModeTime "1.3.6.1.4.1.42.3.13.2.0" rsSystemProcessTime "1.3.6.1.4.1.42.3.13.3.0" rsIdleModeTime "1.3.6.1.4.1.42.3.13.4.0" I able to ...

We are running the ce0 NIC card configured on v490S. I tried to confiig the speed by createing the S99ce script in /etc/rc2.d Setup following parameteres ndd -set /dev/ce instance 0 ndd -set /dev/ce adv_1000fdx_cap 1 ndd -set /dev/ce adv_100fdx_cap 0 ndd -set /dev/ce adv_100hdx_cap 0 ndd ...

Hi, I am using Solaris10. I want to configure network card for accessing broadband connection.Can anyone pls help me in configuring the network card. I tried to configure using 'ifconfig'.But i could configure only temporarily and that too i could configure only i\p. I need to configure ...

Hi I just installed Solaris 10....i have been looking around for explantion how to connect to the internet. in forums but i dont kknow where to start...i have sympatico (bell) i have no router its a direct connection from the modem...i am not at all comfortable in a unix enviroment, but i want ...

I want to add a second NIC to an Ultra 10. Can I use a standard 3Com 10/100 NIC or does it have to be a Sun i/f? The Ultra 10 has a PCI bus that uses standard National Instruments PCI/GPIB cards.

Hi, There are two servers n1 and n3. The l8 auto loader is connected to n1. I have installed EBS 7.2 to take backup file systems of n3 to the autoloader connected to n1. Both n1 and n3 are connected but are in different domains. n1 is configured as the server and n3 is configured as the ...

Ive been trying to get my solaris box on the network, but it isnt working. Ive followed a bunch of guides but still nothing. I found a guide specific to my network card but ive run into some trouble. no drivers are installed on my solaris machine. Whenever i try to unzip the drivers from a cd ...

Can anyone provide me the SUN documents URL to configure sendmail in Solaris 9. Any other good link will also do. Thanks.

Hi, I want to force NIC speed in 100FD on bge nic. I know how to do this on eri and qfe, but same commands didn't work for bge. Example: <a href="mailto:ROOT&#64;drfw2" target="_blank">ROOT@drfw2</a> $ ndd -set /dev/eri instance 0 <a ...

What command could you use to determine the interface speed of your networks cards. Thanks

Hey everyone, Before I start, I ve been using unix for about half a year so a bit of a noob. I ve re-installed Solaris 8 on a sunblade 150. I ve installed gnome and firefox, I ve configure my ip in the host file. I would like to try and connect to the internet, the sunblade connect though ...

Hello all, I have found many suggestions on how to hard code bge interfaces but nothing from Sun. I did find a reference to ID70401 but am unable to locate it. Can anyone help? Anthony

I had to backup a file system in n2 to the tape connected to n1. I used the following command: <a href="mailto:root&#64;n2" target="_blank">root@n2</a> # ufsdump -0uvf n1:/dev/rmt/0 /filesystem The backup is done, but on checking the /etc/dumpdates file, I can see ...

putting files in a server using ftp is fast 5000kbps but getting files from that server to another server/workstation is very slow 10 kbps. Is there any option to increase the speed of the file transfer from that server...can anyone tell me how to increase the buffer size of network card.. ...

Hello I have a problem. I got 2 interfaces: iprb0 - 192.168.0.43 rtls0 - 192.168.1.1 Iprb0 is for connectivity to internet throw 192.168.0.1. My problem is that I need for example from computer with address 192.168.1.2 browse on the internet.Can you help me please how colud I do this?I try ...

Can anyone tell me how to check the processor/CPU usage from command line interface. I have tried psrinfo but no help. David

Hello, just wondering if anyone can help - haven't had too much (very little) experience with solaris (or unix for that matter). When installing Solaris 10 from cd (sparc) I get to the 'Confirm Information' screen, click confirm and it comes back with an error stating that 'The Name ...

Hi, I have a telnet problem that is baffling me. One of my Solaris7 server is not accepting any remote telnet connections. The daemon is running fine and I can do a loopback telnet without problems, but if I try from remote, I get a connection refused. Having taken a look at /etc/inetd.conf, it ...

I am looking for info on locking down the speed and duplex settings on SUN equipment connected to Cisco Catalysts. The reason I am asking is to provide the right information to several system admins who have stated they need auto sensing for speed and duplex. Everything I have ever delt with ...

Hi, I installed two solaris 9 workstations and I put them in a private network. I didn't specify a default gateway but some static routes. I have seen that while running netstat -rn the two solaris exchange their routes creating very confusion. This seem to be related to the process in.routed ...

I have a hme card in the PCI 1 slot. I cannot configure the card. I have tried ifconfig, drvconfig and modinfo without success. # ifconfig -a lo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 eri0: ...

Hello, I have installed two network cards in Ultra5 machine hme0 is configured with address 172.24.32.xxx router is 172.24.132.1 hme1 is configured with address 192.168.6.xxx router is 192.168.6.2 Both are totally different networks. My problem is im not able the configure the router ...

hi we have 3 v100 machine which have solaris 9 opearating System .Each machine have 2 NIC one For LAN and Second For(WAN) boardband connection . how to configured IP address and subnetmask and default gateway and how to save this configuration bcoz i am setting these thing but when system ...

Hello all. I am very new to Sun world. I have a brand new V880 in the box. It has come preinstalled with Solaris 8. It does not have a graphics card. I have to check the MAC address for the ethernet card. Can someone advise me how can I login without knowing the root password and how can I see ...

HI, I have to enable ssh on a solaris, so I have to edit a script with which I will start the daemon ssh. This /etc/init.d/sshd script, I am trying to edit it : vi sshd then I press i for inserting - it does not work then i press :q! or :w for exiting and saving - it does not work Can ...

I have a V100 machine .which have solaris 9 due to power failure server had poweroff and when server is booting again which have some proble in bootmode server has boot from network and erorr given. i belive server has boot from network but i need system boot from hdd .I change the boot divice ...

Hi I dont know what try next so please help. I have 2 LAN's one with adresses 192.168.0.* a second 192.168.1.* and I have two routers the first one has IP 192.168.1.1 and second is 192.168.0.1. The second one is connected to internet.And I want to browse internet from computers with IP ...

Hello I am new to Solaris and having problems with a PC network configuration--wired to a belkin wireless router and then to a cable modem. I have tried many of the manual setups listed on the forums with no success--the defaults keep returning and I get an unable to plumb message (I don't ...

Hi everybody, how can i configure NTPclient on a cluster ? the Cluster private hostname have the same time,'cos file ntp.conf.cluster is configured; command ntpq -p print out clusternode1-pr and clusternode2-pr, the demon xntpd run like /usr/lib/inet/xntpd -c /etc/inet/ntp.conf.cluster Now ...

I have tried numerous times to install solaris 10 x86 with no ability to connect to the internet. What am I doing wrong? I have a belkin wireless router connected to a cable modem. I have tried two different NIC cards and a wireless card--nothing works. It continues to tell me that I have an ...

Hi, I want to change an IP and netmask and broadcast of a machine using solaris 8 but after I reboot the changes are lost. The IP is remembered but the netmask and broadcast are lost. In /etc/netmasks the last line has the new netmask that I established, all the lines before this line are ...

I just installed Solaris 10 on my computer today. I am unable to browse the internet and I have no idea whatsoever how to configure my network settings. I searched everywhere on the internet and could find nothing relevant. I have an ethernet Netgear router installed. Could anyone give me a ...

"modinfo |grep Eth" can get the eri0 module info, "demsg |grep eri0" can get the eri0 info. but I use "ifconfig eri0 plumb" there is an error, said" eri0: no such file or directory", use "ifconfig eri0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ......." still get that ...

Can any one explain me the full steps to change ip address in solaris 2.5,7 & solaris8 on sparc & x86 platform? any differences are in commands in all versions? if yes explain me

Hi all, I'm having the following problem. The server is a Sunfire V240, I've just installed a 4-port Quad card in the 3.3 Volt PCI slot, and I'm only configuring qfe0 and qfe2 since they are the interfaces to be used for network traffic. The problem is that the system complains about qfe1 ...

Please, can somebody give me the way, step by step to configure a DNS server on solaris 10. i want to have the directories and files that it is necessary to modify and the modification to have a domain name "deptech.lan" with ip adress of the DNS server 192.168.100.2. thank ...