Sun Microsystems GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter User Manual

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Chapter 2

Installing the Adapter

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1. At the command line, use the

grep

command to search the

/etc/path_to_inst

file for

ce

interfaces.

In the example above, the device instance is from a Sun GigaSwift Ethernet adapter.
For clarity, the instance number is in bold italics.

2. Use the

ifconfig

command to set up the adapter’s

ce

interface.

Use the

ifconfig

command to assign an IP address to the network interface. Type

the following at the command line, replacing ip-address with the adapter’s IP
address:

Refer to the

ifconfig

(1M) man page and the Solaris documentation for more

information.

If you want a setup that remains the same after you reboot, create an

/etc/hostname.ce

number file, where number corresponds to the instance

number of the

ce

interface you plan to use.

To use the adapter’s

ce

interface in the Step 1 example, create an

/etc/hostname.ce0

file, where

0

is the number of the

ce

interface. If the

instance number were

1

, the filename would be

/etc/hostname.ce1

.

Do not create an

/etc/hostname.ce

number file for a Sun GigaSwift Ethernet

adapter interface you plan to leave unused.

The

/etc/hostname.ce

number file must contain the hostname and IP address

for the appropriate

ce

interface.

The host name and IP address must be listed in the

/etc/hosts

file.

The host name must be different from any other host name of any other interface,
for example:

/etc/hostname.ce0

and

/etc/hostname.ce1

cannot share the

same host name.

The following example shows the

/etc/hostname.ce

number file required for a

system called

zardoz

that has a Sun GigaSwift Ethernet adapter (

zardoz-11)

.

# grep ce /etc/path_to_inst

"/pci@8,600000/network@1" 0 "ce"

# ifconfig ce0 plumb

ip-address

up

# cat /etc/hostname.hme0

zardoz

# cat /etc/hostname.ce0

zardoz-11

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