Solaris 10 -> noob -> question

namespace std · 03-15-2008, 12:49 PM

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That is the expected behaviour.

That means the command was properly accepted and likely worked. What were you expecting ?

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Was there error messages ? Did the commands fail to set the IP address and the network mask ?

You asked me, so I answered.

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I suppose you mean receive packets. What makes you believe your interface cannot send packets to the network ?

It was just a guess, ok, I really don't know what packets are, but I'm guessing that they must be some kind of sign meaning that I could send and receive data. In the taskbar, in the network settings I saw only received packets (about 8-9 MB) and O bytes of sent packets, meaning that I cannot communicate with any host.

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That is unusual. What are you connecting your Solaris box to ?

A Webstar cable modem provided by my ISP which offers only single IPs around here.

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What other OS(es) are you familiar with and how do you configure it/them to have Internet access ?

Well, Ubuntu, Linspire and Mandriva. I didn't tried many.

jlliagre · 03-15-2008, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by namespace std

It was just a guess, ok, I really don't know what packets are, but I'm guessing that they must be some kind of sign meaning that I could send and receive data. In the taskbar, in the network settings I saw only received packets (about 8-9 MB) and O bytes of sent packets, meaning that I cannot communicate with any host.

There is not that much spontaneous outgoing traffic to expect so 0 bytes could be okay. Did you try to ping your router ?

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A Webstar cable modem provided by my ISP which offers only single IPs around here.

What model ?

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Well, Ubuntu, Linspire and Mandriva. I didn't tried many.

How did you configure the network on these Linux distros ?

namespace std · 03-15-2008, 02:11 PM

I did tried to ping it but it said: "Host unreachable" or something like that.

The modem - Webstar EPC2203 by Scientific Atlanta

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How did you configure the network on these Linux distros ?

Exactly like on Solaris - with the ifconfig command

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ifconfig eth0 up

etc

edit: look, I have this exact problem

jlliagre · 03-15-2008, 03:20 PM

According to this cable modem documentation, DHCP is the way to configure the connected PC.

Whether it is Solaris, Linux or whatever, you cannot configure Internet access only with the ifconfig command.

namespace std · 03-15-2008, 03:28 PM

Thanks a lot! I'll try to install it now with DCHP mode on and see if I can connect.

madivad · 03-15-2008, 04:03 PM

@jlliagre -- ahh yes, the ifconfig -a plumb
I had forgotten about that one, but just want to confirm (since my brain is mush now) if ifconfig only lists lo0, will doing ifconfig -a plumb actually populate the device id's? I had already determined mine when I ran it, so I can't say.

@namespace std, Regarding host unreachable, did you look at the post I mentioned earlier? That was my solution, may not necessarily be yours, ie populate resolv.conf and add routes. Mine is only a suggestion, jlliagre is the guru here :-)

namespace std · 03-15-2008, 07:50 PM

Nevermind, with DCHP enabled I can't get it to install properly.

At cd2 and cd5 installation gaved me the following errors:

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Mar 15 23:07:43 svc.startd[7]: svc/network /smtp:sendmail: Method "lib/svc/methid/smtp.sendmail start" failed due to signal KILL

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-------syslogd: line 24: WARNING: loghost could not be resolved

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Mar 15 23:22:13 unknown /sbin/dchpagent[41]: configure_bound: cannot add default router 89.136.64.1 on rtls0: File exists

And many others

And when the installation is finished and the computer reboots I get this thing:

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Unknown console login data in .ndpd solicit-event: giving up on rtls0

And I can't do anything here. Ok, I'm giving up on Solaris...

jlliagre · 03-16-2008, 06:36 AM

I'm missing why you did reinstall the whole OS instead of reconfiguring it to use DHCP. Anyway, some of the error messages are harmless, the other ones are unknown. Perhaps a transcription error.

What return the following commands ?

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ifconfig -a
grep -v "^#" /etc/hosts
cat /etc/resolv.conf
grep "^hosts" /etc/nsswitch.conf
netstat -rn
arp -a

namespace std · 03-17-2008, 06:49 PM

Fore some reason, I had to enable Wake on LAN from BIOS. And the Internet connection worked perfectly from then on. Thanks everybody for your time and patience.