Hi,

OS: Solaris 8
Hardware: Sun-Fire-V210

Initially only one of it's 4 ethernet interfaces was configured for
the network connectivity. Recently, all types of communication ends up
freezing (ssh, ftp) and the ping replies are intermittent. The cable
connection and the switch ports are okay.

Windows_machine>ping 10.1.1.2 -t

Pinging 10.1.1.2 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 10.1.1.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255
Request timed out.
<snip>
Request timed out.
Reply from 10.1.1.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255
Request timed out.

Then I wanted to change the interface settings from bge0 to bge1 after
connecting the cable to corresponding ethernet port. I un-"plumb"ed
bge0 before I come up with bge1.

# cat /etc/inet/hosts
10.1.1.1 test1.test.org test1
10.1.1.2 test2.test.org test2

# cat /etc/hostname.bge1
test2.test.org

# cat /etc/netmasks
10.1.1.0 255.255.0.0

# cat /etc/defaultrouter
10.1.1.90

I also edited the following file to update the host information as
"test2" ...

/etc/nodename
/etc/net/ticlts/hosts
/etc/net/ticots/hosts
/etc/net/ticotsord/hosts
/var/crash

Just to check whether the settings are staying or not, I rebooted the
whole system. The "ifconfig -a" doesn't return any IP address as
configured. We can't communicate with the system unless we use this
command:

# ifconfig bge1 10.1.1.2 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 10.1.255.255
plumb up

What am I missing? I might plan for IP multipathing as it started from
Sol 8.


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Raqueeb Hassan
Bangladesh