logical interface in solaris 10

> Hi there,

>

> I need to configure logical interface in a solaris 10

> 3/05 server. After reading the Solaris 10 IP services

> manual, I am not quite sure what to do. All the

> examples and explanation are about using the new

> subcommand addif of ifconfig. It was not clear in the

> documentation if the setting logical interfaces via

> addif will persist across boot.

No. No 'ifconfig' command is persistent.

> Can one still configure logical interface in Solaris

> 10 in a more traditional way like in Solaris 8? In an

> Solaris 8 server I will do the following.

>

> Let's assume I want to configure in a solaris 8

> server a logical interface named hme0:1 with IP

> address 192.168.20.28 with netmask 255.255.255.0 for

> hostname host001

>

> # cat /etc/hostname.hme0:1

> host001

> ^D

> # echo "192.168.20.28 host001" >> /etc/inet/hosts

> # echo "192.168.20.0 255.255.255.0" >>

> /etc/inet/netmasks

> # reboot -- -r

>

> Can one still do that in solaris 10 3/05 server?

Absolutely.

You don't need to reboot (you can run ifconfig for this boot and let the files do the work next time) and the -r doesn't do anything with interfaces (expecially virtual interfaces) anyway.

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Darren

Darren_Dunham at 2007-7-7 1:48:18 >