Hello everybody,
I have just installed Solaris 10, but i don`t know how to configure my internet connection...and i need it .badly...so here are a few details: i use a NIC, witch is installed and OK..and the connection is PPPoE based, through a router.My IP adress is dinamically allocated. But how do i create the connection?
Thank u!
N.
the simplest way is to unconfig the system.
as root sys-unconfig
Then answer the questions and reboot.
This is not the solution...if i reconfigure the system,then i will be asked to enter my IP adress...witch IP adress, since is dinamically alocated?
pls. visit http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5065780&messageID=9384301#93 84301
for that. I think it will helpful.
thanks
Partha
You let your router take care of all tasks related to the PPoE configuration.
It communicates with your ISP.
As @partha advised in that other forum thread,
you configure the DHCP settings as you feel will work best.
Me ?
I set my Solaris x86 system at a static IP at the upper end
of the range that my router awards for IP addresses.
I let my WinDoze systems get their IP's dynamically, which starts at the bottom of the range.
None of the systems ever conflict with each other.
A mixture of static and dynamic IP's can indeed work together.
The router does not "care", so long as there aren't any conflicting IP's.
Hi rukbat,
I have found, How you configure pppoe in solaris 10.
http://blogs.sun.com/popuri/category/General
Thnaks
Partha
Excellent, partha.
I don't happen to have a need for PPoE with my ISP, Comcast cable.
However my little D-link router could do that task for me if it were necessary.
I keep the router in the setup because it adds a hardware firewall "layer" to my setup.
It add NAT to my home LAN.
My ISP charges extra if there are too many computers taking individual IP's from it.
This way I use one public IP from the ISP and can dynamically change
how may computers are in the LAN without a worry.
They're on a 192-net or a 10-net and are not public IP's.
It just works.
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@nyquist:
Split the Duke stars between kjard-us and partha as you choose.None for me.
On a side note, I am beginning to wonder why the ISPs do not suggest the router from the start. The number of service calls they must receive due to windows alone should justify the slight expense of adding a real router to their modems. If they would add this 30 dollar bit to the 'standard' modem all OSes could access their services without pain and no one in the windows world would have to install one of those machine melting cds they distribute.
