NIC on Ultra 10 with Solaris 10 not running

Hi,
I have a couple of Old Ultra 10's. I've installed Solaris 10 on both of them. I tried to give them a point to point connectivity using a Cross-over cable. But, when I do a ifconfig -a on both of them, I get it as
<UP, BROADCAST, MULTICAST> MTU ...... if you noticed here, I did not get them as RUNNIING. I have given them private IP's 192.168.1.1 and .2 and they are both on 255.255.255.0. I have them both plumbed and up with the above IP and netmasks. but they do not ping each other. I wonder where I am wrong. Can somebody gimme a insight into this, as to what has to be done to rectify this problem. One of them had the MTU value as 8232 and the other one at 1500 so, I gave the one with 8232
# ifconfig hme0 mtu 1500
1. Are the IPs correct ?
2. Are the net mask values set right ?
3. Should any of the files need to be updated?
4. what about the /etc/defaultrouter does this have to do anything with the servers not pinging each other ?
5. Does the NIC driver need an update for Solaris 10 ? If so can you pls specify the link for me to download ?
Advice Pls.
David

I've had tremendous trouble in the past with making crossover ethernet cables function properly on some Ultra 10 machines. As far as I'm aware, it should have the same hardware as other Sun models, but that's the only one I've had real problems with.
I've had several jumpstart setups that failed until I was able to bring in a hub or switch instead of working them back-to-back.
So no direct help from me, I'm afraid. But it could just be the hardware. Use 'kstat' (or the ndd method) to check if the link is up. No link, no traffic. Until that happens your questions 1-4 are irrelevant. Question 5 is a good one, but no, Solaris 10 would include the hardware drivers. And for equipment as old as the Ultra 10, I'm guessing there haven't been many recent updates.
Darren

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You have to downgrade the OBP. Unfortunately the previous patch is no longer available (from Sun) for download.
You can either take one of the 'SUN4U SYSTEM FLASH PROM UPDATE' cd's (e.g. 2.3) or download it from the alternate location given in the thread.
It's very interesting that the error does only appear when Solaris is involved. I will post this as an update to the original thread.
Michael

Upgrading Ultra 5 Solaris 2.6 to V280 with Solaris 8 or 9

Our Ultra 5 still runs Solaris 2.6. What's the easiest way to upgrade this box (hardware and OS), without having to re-install all apps? We're looking at used V280s, but I figure they will not run Solaris 2.6, so an upgrade is needed. Should I first upgrade to 8 or 9 on the Ultra 5, and then move the dump files (or disks?) on to the the V280? This sounds like it's not going to work. Otherwise, what's a smooth hardware transition for an Ultra 5, for us to get newer harware and OS?
Budget is limited. I can't try out many scenarios.

Solaris is backward compatable, perhaps you should try to migrate on a test platform first, shouldn't be too difficult to get another SPARC system. I use 220R for this, cheap on parts, very reliable and has a broad range of supported OS releases, limited only in performance compared with newer systems.
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/E220R/E220R.html
I agree with you on the hardware upgrade, Ultra 5 is a platform with many limitations. I am not 100% with Informix, my experience with it is on the HU-UX platform, however IBM released version 10 in 2005.
http://safari.oreilly.com/0130122475
One thing is sure though, if you approach IBM regarding the upgrade, you may be looking a new/upgrade licenses, this may be the reason the managment have not taken that option.
Another suggestion would be to consider another server that supports Solaris 2.6 instead of the 280R, this would make life much easier, Sun Enterprise 420R may suit, at least you will find a fully loaded system to perform much better than the Ultra 5 ( supports up to 4 CPUs and 4GB RAM ).
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/E420R/E420R.html
For more expansion ( CPUs and Memory ), but more complicated there is a E4500 as well:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/E4500/E4500.html
Moving to a new platform is not going to be cheap either way, but software migration will be the more expensive route.
Sun offer both of the above mentioned systems with full as new warranty in the remanufactured program:
http://www.sun.com/remanufactured/

NIC on Ultra 10 with Solaris 10 not running

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