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Actually what i want to attain is ip-forwarding in solaris. i wouldnt mind if you can just point out the basic things i need to do. Hope to hear from you soon
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They are similar but different commands.
"ifconfig iprb0 plumb" makes the iprb0 interface available for further commands. "ifconfig iprb0 unplumb" does the opposite. After unplumbing an interface, it won't appear in "ifconfig -a" output.
"ifconfig iprb0 up" makes the iprb0 interface up, i.e. able to send and receive packets. "ifconfig iprb0 down" is disabling all traffic from the interface but all its other settings are still there.
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Originally Posted by yawe_frek
1.)I kindly want to know how to switch from CDE in solaris to CLI just the way i do it in linux with alt+ctrl f1,f2,f3 etc.
This feature used to exist in old Solaris releases but was dropped a long time ago. It is in the process of being integrated again, but is not yet.
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2.)how do i know my current runlevel and how do i change it cos i have gone through the inittab but it is totally difference.
"who -r" will show the current run level, although that means less than what it used to with SMF and milestones. What do you want to achieve by switching run levels ?
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3.)how do i veiw my routing table, is it route -rn
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well regarding switching btw Gui and Cli, i do it a lot on Linux so i was thinking it was going to be possible in Solaris 10.
It is very much possible with Solaris, but that doesn't involves run levels like with many Linux distributions.
To disable the graphic environment, run:
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/usr/dt/dtconfig -d
To re-enable it:
Code:
/usr/dt/dtconfig -e
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Less i forget pls how do i stop,start,restart a service, how do i know services that are currently running or not running. I will be really be glade.
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