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110 Sun Fire 880 Server Owner’s Guide • August 2001
interface will know the system as
sunrise
, while networks connected to the
ge0
and
ge1
interfaces will know the system as
sunrise-1
and
sunrise-2
,
respectively.
6. Create an entry in the
/etc/hosts
file for each active network interface.
An entry consists of the IP address and the host name for each interface.
The following example shows an
/etc/hosts
file with entries for the three network
interfaces used as examples in this procedure.
7. Manually plumb and enable each new interface using the
ifconfig
command.
For example, for the logical interface
ge0
, type:
For more information, see the
ifconfig(1M)
man page.
What Next
After completing this procedure, any new network interfaces are ready for
operation. However, in order for other network devices to communicate with the
system through the new interface, the IP address and host name for each new
interface must be entered into the namespace on the network name server. For
information about setting up a network name service, consult the
Solaris System
Administrator AnswerBook for your specific Solaris release.
sunrise # cat /etc/hostname.eri0
sunrise
sunrise # cat /etc/hostname.ge0
sunrise-1
sunrise # cat /etc/hostname.ge1
sunrise-2
sunrise # cat /etc/hosts
#
# Internet host table
#
127.0.0.1 localhost
129.144.10.57 sunrise loghost
129.144.14.26 sunrise-1
129.144.11.83 sunrise-2
sunrise # ifconfig ge0 plumb up