Gentle People:

The Twisted Pair Ethernet Interface (hme0)
on my Ultra 30 failed. Prompting me to purchase
an Sun Quad Ethernet card from EBAY, which I have
(almost) successfully installed.

Here is the problem the new card only works
if I disable the failed twisted pair interface
(hme0) with the following command:

ifconfig hme0 down

But this only lasts until I reboot the machine!

Alternatively I can also get the new card to
work if I comment out the old host line in the
/etc/hosts file.

Question: Is there a more graceful way to disable
the old hme0 interface, so the interface stays disabled
after reboot?

Thanks for the help.
Thomas Dineen

Thomas Dineen wrote:

> Gentle People:
>
> The Twisted Pair Ethernet Interface (hme0)
> on my Ultra 30 failed. Prompting me to purchase
> an Sun Quad Ethernet card from EBAY, which I have
> (almost) successfully installed.
>
> Here is the problem the new card only works
> if I disable the failed twisted pair interface
> (hme0) with the following command:
>
> ifconfig hme0 down
>
> But this only lasts until I reboot the machine!
>
> Alternatively I can also get the new card to
> work if I comment out the old host line in the
> /etc/hosts file.
>
> Question: Is there a more graceful way to disable
> the old hme0 interface, so the interface stays disabled
> after reboot?
>
> Thanks for the help.
> Thomas Dineen
>

rm /etc/hostname.hme0
rm /etc/hostname6.hme0

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> Thomas Dineen wrote:
>
>> Gentle People:
>>
>> The Twisted Pair Ethernet Interface (hme0)
>> on my Ultra 30 failed. Prompting me to purchase
>> an Sun Quad Ethernet card from EBAY, which I have
>> (almost) successfully installed.
>>
>> Here is the problem the new card only works
>> if I disable the failed twisted pair interface
>> (hme0) with the following command:
>>
>> ifconfig hme0 down
>>
>> But this only lasts until I reboot the machine!
>>
>> Alternatively I can also get the new card to
>> work if I comment out the old host line in the
>> /etc/hosts file.
>>
>> Question: Is there a more graceful way to disable
>> the old hme0 interface, so the interface stays disabled
>> after reboot?
>>
>> Thanks for the help.
>> Thomas Dineen
>>
>
> rm /etc/hostname.hme0
> rm /etc/hostname6.hme0
Would an ifconfig hme0 unplumb be required aswell ?

Jim

Jim wrote:

> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>
>> Thomas Dineen wrote:
>>
>>> Gentle People:
>>>
>>> The Twisted Pair Ethernet Interface (hme0)
>>> on my Ultra 30 failed. Prompting me to purchase
>>> an Sun Quad Ethernet card from EBAY, which I have
>>> (almost) successfully installed.
>>>
>>> Here is the problem the new card only works
>>> if I disable the failed twisted pair interface
>>> (hme0) with the following command:
>>>
>>> ifconfig hme0 down
>>>
>>> But this only lasts until I reboot the machine!
>>>
>>> Alternatively I can also get the new card to
>>> work if I comment out the old host line in the
>>> /etc/hosts file.
>>>
>>> Question: Is there a more graceful way to disable
>>> the old hme0 interface, so the interface stays disabled
>>> after reboot?
>>>
>>> Thanks for the help.
>>> Thomas Dineen
>>>
>>
>> rm /etc/hostname.hme0
>> rm /etc/hostname6.hme0
>
> Would an ifconfig hme0 unplumb be required aswell ?
>
> Jim

Don't know. Don't have the hardware to test it. It wouldn't hurt.

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Jim wrote:

> > rm /etc/hostname.hme0
> > rm /etc/hostname6.hme0
> Would an ifconfig hme0 unplumb be required aswell ?

If hme0 is currently plumbed, then yes, you'll need to unplumb
it also.

HTH,

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