How to connect to the Internet

pine.sol,

you may be experiencing trouble because the maximum transmission unit of the interface may be set higher than the maximum allowed by the DSL connection. I believe that it defaults to 1500 on Solaris, and DSL connections have a maximum of 1492. So, to fix, enter the following at a root prompt: (this example assumes that your network interface is hme0 -- if you have another type, you need to substitute that name in the following command)

# ifconfig hme0 mtu 1492

If memory serves, this only works until the machine is rebooted, and you should install a tcp performance script that will automatically handle setting all of your parameters each time the machine is booted. (Although Unix machines are notorious for uptimes of hundreds or thousands of days). Colin Bitterfield has posted a very good tcp-performance script at his website, http://colin.bitterfield.com/apache_benchmark.html where he conducts various networking throughput tests in two different solaris operating systems, comparing non-tuned and tuned results.

The script itself is run during startup, in the 'rcS.d' folder or whichever you choose, but I think that Solaris 10 makes use of milestones in place of the run-level system, and therefore implentation is very likely to be different. I have no experience with 10 yet, and will contribute if I come across an answer.

HTH

John

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johnmuller at 2007-7-5 19:39:18 >