Network Interface Configuration Solaris 7

Hi,
I'm new on Solaris platform. How does one change the gateway IP address to a new gateway IP address. I've tried "route change" command but no success. Any suggestion is very much appreciated.
Kala
Telikom PNG Ltd

Changing the IP address on a server can be quite involved if there are applications running on the server that "know" about the machines IP address ( typically databases ).
Ordinarily, if you are only changing the IP address you could use the ifconfig command. You might also need to change the netmask value.
Be careful, if your doing this remotely, say via telnet, once you run the ifconfig command and the IP changes, you will loose your connection to the server. It's best to try this sort of thing whilst your on the system console. If there is any mistake in your command and the interface is configured incorrectly or goes down, you will not be able to reconnect unless your on the system console.
If you want the IP address change to be persistent ie after reboots, you will need to edit the /etc/hosts file and add the new IP address in. If your using DNS and/or NIS/NIS+ then these files will also have to be changed.

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Network Interface Configuration

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<<Q3>>How to configure the network interfaces in Solaris 9?
<<Q4>> Did we need to restart the network after we have edit the network configuration? If, how to restart the network? (e.g. in Debian /etc/init.d/networking restart).
Please assist.

You also posted this same question at another forum web site.
It appears your answer is going to be over there.
There's now no sense in duplicating it here.
['Network Interface Configuration' at www.LinuxQuestions.Org|http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/solaris-opensolaris-20/network-interface-configuration-652192/]

Network interfaces in solaris 10g guests

Dear all,
I installed solaris 10 on vm server but it doesn't recognize the virtual network interfaces in the system, i tried all the network command in the OS but no way i was able to solve it.
Please advice.

You can see all installed interfaces by running 'grep network /etc/path_to_inst'. An example:
grep network path_to_inst
"/node@1/pci@8,600000/network@1" 0 "ge"
"/node@1/pci@9,700000/network@1,1" 0 "eri"
"/node@1/pci@9,700000/pci@2/network@0" 0 "ce"
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Changing a Network Interface on Solaris 8

This is the joke:
1- Solaris 8 was first installed with a NIC not recognized by Solaris (in-board)
2- A compatible PCI Card has been installed (3Com 3C905B-TX).
3- Old Card has been desactived in the BIOS. No IRQ conflict.
4- At reboot, the Configuration Assistant recognizes the device...
5- At boot, the system does not manage to configure the interface.
The reason comes from that the interface is not recognized by
ifconfig (does not appear in result of "ifconfig -a").
The message "BAd File Number" is obtained with "ipconfig elxl0 plumb".
Questions: - Why?
- Is there a solution? (apart to reinstall the system...)
Hints:
- the interface should be named "elxl0"
(because it is the name of the 3Com interface on other Solaris PC's).
Is it right ????
- the driver name elxl does not appear in the PCI devices of "prtconf -D"
- but the file /kernel/drv/elxl exists !
Waiting for enlighting, thanks very much!!!!

Try to change the network binding on the server
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732472(WS.10).aspx
Try to delete the hidden network adapters as well.
Open Device Manager, from the File menu, expand the View and select the Show Hidden Devices option. This will enable and show any old un-used devices in the window
http://www.gfi.com/blog/how-to-remove-hidden-network-adapters-from-virtual-machines/
Thanks,
MAS
Please mark as helpful if you find my comment helpful or as an answer if it does answer your question. That will encourage me - and others - to take time out to help you.

Intel network interface with Solaris 10 x86

Hi,
I have been Googling all evening to try and find a solution to this, but here is the problem:
I have a PC built around an Asus P4C800-E system board, and I have Solaris 10 x86 01/2006 installed. I would like to get the Ethernet interface (Intel adaptor, running on a CSA bus) up and running - but for some reason I can't seem to get the driver to bind to the proper address (pci8086,1019 - from what I have been able to find out): It instead insists on binding to pci1043,80f7. Even though pci8086,1019 is listed in /etc/device_aliases, it won't play nice.
I know the NIC is working, and have tried it under other OSes (including Linux).
Although Solaris x86 "sees" something there, and the interface is plumbed (it can even tell when the network link is up or down), I can't get the interface to work - pings do not work, etc.
Is there a way I can convince the driver to bind to pci8086,1019 instead of pci1043,80f7?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Joovilhar.

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I can't seem to get the driver to bind to the proper address (pci8086,1019 - from what I have been able to find out): It instead insists on binding to pci1043,80f7. Even though pci8086,1019 is listed in /etc/device_aliases, it won't play nice.
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Is 1043,80f7 the device's pci subsystem vendor and subsystem device id?
And 8086,1019 is the normal vendor/device id?
In this case everything would work as expected.
What is listed by "/usr/X11/bin/scanpci -v" for the ethernet controller?
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I know the NIC is working, and have tried it under other OSes (including Linux).
Although Solaris x86 "sees" something there, and the interface is plumbed (it can even tell when the network link is up or down), I can't get the interface to work - pings do not work, etc.
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Try to boot the kernel with various settings of the "acpi-user-options" variable,
to disable / enable ACPI. In previous Solaris x86 releases, when
something went wrong configuring an interrupt vector for a nic device,
the typical end result is a nic that is unable to receive incomming
packets. Maybe your Asus P4C800-E is still problematic with ACPI, with
S10 x86 1/2006, and needs the acpi-user-options workaround.
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/danasblog?anchor=configurin g_solaris_acpi_at_boot
To change the "acpi-user-options" variable, edit the grub boot command
line and edit the "multiboot" line, e.g. append "-Bacpi-user-options=0x2".

Solaris Cluster 3.3u2 configuration - Solaris Ldoms

Hi,
I've 2 sun blade T5-1B and I create 4 ldoms on each blade, also I install the Solaris Cluster 3.3u2 and its all done successfully, I did several time resource fail-over with nodes, everything seems working perfect for me as normal behavior of expected but I've an issue to test public transport testing, hereby I remove the both physical public transport cable form node1 but its didn't fail-over on node2, little confuse as its should be fail-over to node2, but not. Please let me know if where missed something to get proper fail-over?
Please advise.
regards,

Hi M10vir,
this means you are running SC3.3u2 in guest domains and pulling the cables from the primary domain?
If so, this would mean that the IPMP group used in the guest domain need to get a link down that Solaris Cluster do a failover when logical hostname resources are configured. How are the network interfaces configured and what is the status of the network interfaces when the cables are removed? Furthermore does the domains recognize that the network is gone and the relevant messages are in /var/adm/messages?
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Juergen

Solaris 10 u11 : Is it possible to mix IPMP with vertual network interface

Hi
I have a system with 4 Ethernet interfaces , I'd like to try to have virtual network interface on two of them . then configure IPMP between each two.
- Is it possible to mix IPMP and VNIC ?
- online , I found posts about having vnic on solaris by creating additional interface file (ex, /etc/hostname.bge0:1 ) and also the IPMP create such interface?
- How can I know which IPMP version installed on the system ? and how to know I'm reading the right configuration guide?
- on what basis should i choose the type of IPMP for my system (Link-based or Probe-based)
Thanks in advance
HEBA

Hi.
IPMP can coexist with VNIC.
IPMP - part of Solaris. So you not need check version of IPMP. Just read Docs for Solaris.
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23823_01/html/816-4554/ipmptm-1.html#scrolltoc
It's not clear what Vnic you plan use. Is it VLAN or just additional IP on interface ?
For test address of IPMP you should configure interface like bge0:1 with additional options.
Regards.

Smf / sometimes does not configure network interfaces in single-user mode?

From http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisx86/message/14785
When booting into single user mode, I often get a message
on the console
t_optmgmt: System error: Cannot assign requested addressand only the loopback interface is configured (lo0 inet, and lo0 inet6).
The system's dnet0 interface is not plumbed any more. Configuration
for the dnet0 network interface is via a static ip address; hostname
in /etc/hostname.dnet0, and and ip v4 address for that hostname in
/etc/hosts. This was a Solaris 10 x86 system, but the same problem
has also been observed on Solaris 10 sparc, and the hme0
interface.
svcs -x in single-user mode reports no problems.
Changing to multi-user mode by typing Ctrl-D still does not
configure the real network interface.
One thing that I've noticed is that smf's log file
/etc/svc/volatile/network-physical:default.log
is missing, when the nic interface was not configured.
It seems that the problem with unconfigured network interfaces
does not happen when I boot directly into multi-user mode.
Why isn't the physical interface plumbed and configured when
booting into single user mode on S10 b69?

Hi everyone,
I too have internet connection problem
I have installed Solaris 10 on my Compaq Presario M2000 series
Solaris Management Console Details:
Hostname: HOME
Host ID: 116c4141
Model: i86PC
no of CPUs: 1
CPU: 0
Type: Genuine Intel 6.13.8
Clock Speed: 1,500 MHz
Usage: 1%
Status: Online
Software SunOS 5.10
Physical Mem: 222 MB
Virtual Mem: 729 MB
Virt MEM used: 41 % (298/729) 413 MB available
IP address: 172.19.16.96
Network Connection rtls0: Sending & Receiving Packets
When running WinXP in my laptop before for same IP:
IP address: 172.19.16.96
Subnet mask: 255.255.240.0
Default Gateway: 172.19.31.254
while booting the OS said NFS+ version 4 was detected and the router IP is automatically configured or there is no specific individual router IP, says something like this
# ifconfig -a:
lo0: flag = 2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK, RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL>mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
rtls0: flags = 1000843<UP, BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4>mtu 1500 index 2
inet 172.19.16.96 netmask ffff0000 BROADCAST 172.19.255.255
ether 0:c0:9f:8c:c9
lo0: flags=2002000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL>mtu 8252 index 1
inet 6 :: 1/128
rtls0: flags = 2000840<RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4>mtu 1500 index 2
inet fe80::2c0:9fff:fe9a:8cc 9/10
ether 0:c0:9f:9a:8c:c9
I have modified the files and checked them:
1. etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 local host
172.19.16.96 HOME loghost
2. etc/hostname.rtls0
HOME
3. etc/hostname6.rtls0
HOME
4. etc/netmasks
172.19.16.255 255.255.240.0
I don't know the network IP so i just write this, can anyone tell me how to find the network IP
5. etc/defaultrouter
172.19.31.254
I made this file and wrote the default gateway IP address, can anyone tell me how to find default router IP since the NFS+ version 4 auto detects or auto assigns router IP
6. etc/resolv.conf
domain myhost.com
nameserver: 172.19.16.12
nameserver: 172.19.16.13
still domain name has't been set, i just wrote this, can anyone tell me how to find the domain name or create one. also the name server is just a fake, but how to find one. If i will be connecting my laptop to various IP whereever i go, so do i need to configure network setting again and again ? isn't there any auto network configuration so that i can connect internet where ever i go and let the system auto configure network settings like in windows XP auto IP configuration detect.
7. etc/nsswitch.conf
in this i can't see "hosts: files" but i could see rest of the details. so I inserted "hosts: files dns" in the third line and saved.
I ran the following command in the terminal to find the details:
#ypmatch host-name hosts
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(how to set domain name can anyone tell me?)
#move/etc/netmasks: not found
#uname -n
HOME
#cat/etc/nsswitch.conf
cat/etc/nsswitch.conf: not found
#domain name
domain: not found
#ypwhich
ypwhich: the domainname has'nt been set to this machine
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awaiting reply from gurus
bye for now.................

Trying to set network interface at 100/full on Solaris 11

Hi all,
I hope someone can help me.
I've built two boxes running Solaris 11 in my lab. Connected to a hub, all seemed well.
Now, I've connected them to the network here and I'm having the following issue, The machines should be connecting to the network at 100Mbps/full. Instead, it seems they are trying to connect at 10Mbps/full, which is causing a problem.
When I check the speed on the NIC (interface=net2), speed is set to 10Mb :
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Note the following blog post I've found here indicating someone else had issues with mode/speed in Solaris 11 (unfortunately I'm still stumped!) :
http://blog.thilelli.net/post/2011/02/19/Solaris-11-Express%3A-Problem-6
My networks man is adamant that the network settings are correct, i.e. the network is set to 100Mbps, and looking at his switch settings he seems to be correct.
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Despite what your site's network staff have said, this is likely to be their issue.
If you are connecting to a managed switch, that entire peripheral may have specific settings on some or all of its ports.
I suggest you let that switch do whatever it expects to do and remove all customizations to your NIC's configuration.   Let it auto-negotiate.
You should also ignore that link you have in your initial post.   The ERI network interface that is described there was a very specific network chipset and used on a very small specific number of Sun SPARC boxes. It was known to have issues with proper negotiation (it would usually work but sometimes just get mucked up).
See this Symantec link http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH37566
and the following two Oracle notes:
(PDF) http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01/806-5579-10/806-5579-10.pdf
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/816-4554/fwawf/index.html

JET install: ERROR: Unable to configure network interface Exiting to shell

Using SUNWjet v4.4.4 I'm trying to build a server using update 5 x86 which seems
to work with one notable exception. The JET server and the build server do not
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SunOS release
Configuring devices
Solaris Interactive Text ( Console Session )
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It seems that I'm forced to bring up the interface manually each time.
This is what the template looks like:
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base_config_ClientEther=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
base_config_ClientOS=s10u5-x86
base_config_client_allocation="grub"
base_config_products="custom eiscd sds"
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base_config_sysidcfg_ip_address=x.x.x.x
base_config_sysidcfg_netmask=255.255.255.0
base_config_sysidcfg_root_password="XXXXXXXXXXXX"
base_config_sysidcfg_system_locale="en_CA.UTF-8"
base_config_sysidcfg_timeserver=
base_config_sysidcfg_timezone="Canada/Eastern"
base_config_sysidcfg_terminal=vt100
base_config_sysidcfg_security_policy=NONE
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base_config_sysidcfg_default_route=x.x.x.1
I've also tried setting the following:
base_config_sysidcfg_network_interface=PRIMARY
vs
base_config_sysidcfg_network_interface=bge0
I don't mind doing this manually but of course I would much rather have it work automatically.

Try giving more network interface settings in the sysidcfg settings:
network_interface=value {primary hostname=host_name
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Hi guys,
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network_interface=vnet0 {primary
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Attempting to configure interface vnet1...
Skipped interface vnet1
Attempting to configure interface vnet0...
Configured interface vnet0
USB keyboard
Reading ZFS config: done.
Setting up Java. Please wait...
Serial console, reverting to text install
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Searching for configuration file(s)...
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Search complete.
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Default Route     Error for vnet1     ────────────────────────────────────────────────
The route ddd.ddd.ddd.ddd could not be added at this time. If you     wish to     accept
the route provided, the route     will be     added to the /etc/defaultrouter     file
to be     used at     reboot.     If you choose not to accept your choice, you will be
asked     to enter network information again for this interface.
      Accept Route
      ────────────
      [X] Yes
      [     ] NoAfter I choose "yes" , the installation goes back to unattended (automated) state.
Any ideas why installation breaks when adding second default route?
If I delete the line default_route=ddd.ddd.ddd.ddd, the installation is not interrupted.
Many thanks,
kido
Edited by: kido on Dec 29, 2010 6:10 PM

Hello again,
First of all, if I delete the second default route from sysidcfg, the installation performs uninterrupted, but vnet1 is not brought up after reboot. I get a message like: vnet1 is not a valid interface name...or something similar...
Regarding multiple default routes now... As long as "man defaultrouter" and "man sysidcfg" state that multiple routes are supported, I would expect this to work...or at least I need a way of installing 2 NICs without human intervention...
I will try to use some post install script instead ( will create /etc/hostname.vnet1 and add second route to /etc/defaultrouter) and will let you know the results.

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how to configure the network printer in solaris 10
like hp laserjet printer/printers,

Very very easy.
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select add a network printer
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I keep getting a "new network interface has been detected. Hoping to stop getting this automatic message I configured it, or thought I did. I'm still getting the message. How do I stop it?

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How to configure the network on Sun Solaris 8

The Sun workstation is a license server, and Window NT workstation need to access the license file that located in the sun workstation.
Now the Window NT workstation cannot connect with the sun solaris, and I guess that I need to configure the network on Sun Solaris 8.
Could you please tell me how to do that step by step?
If there is the system tool like the window system to configure the network easily and quickly.
I appreciate it.
Mark

If your sun system is working then probably it has network configured already .You can check it by the following command on the sun.
ifconfig -a
Generally applications asks where license server is located and you need to give the ip-address or host name only . Application docs will give more detail about it.
You can get ip-address from ifconfig comand above.
Hemant Sharma
http://www.adminschoice.com

How to configure network interface only when cable inserted?

Hi there,
I was wondering if anyone here could help me with a minor configuration problem. I have a server with two network interfaces, I'll call one "internal" and the other one "external". It has NAT configured so that the "internal" interface gets served DHCP, can access the Internet, etc. My problem is that sometimes I want to run the server without anything connected to the internal interface, and at these times it seems that the boot process gets stuck on the "bringing up internal interface" part. (It's a bit hard to know exactly what's going on because the server is headless.) I am using a script in /etc/network.d/, set to static IP address, for the internal interface.
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