Ethernet interfaces & Solaris 2.3

Thanks to all that responded to my question below.As usual, as soon as I sent the message to sun-managers I fixed the problem, I have included some of the respones below as most of them all say the same..

Thanks to following people :

Juergen Peus <grobi@uni-paderborn.de>

ice@syrinx.umd.edu (Fredrik Nyman)

anderson@neon.mitre.org (Mark S. Anderson)

seeger@cis.ufl.edu

pbh@cfsmo.honeywell.com (Paul B. Henninger)

reggie@puma.rentec.com (Reggie Dugard)

odinba!odin!jeff@uunet.UU.NET (Jeff Tate)

bownes@aule-tek.com (Robert M. Bownes III)

fabrice@cisk.ATMOS.Ucla.EDU (Fabrice Cuq)

bob.donnelly@copley.com (Bob Donnelly)

jamest@sybase.com (James Terry)

c14@uebemc.siemens.de (Mitarbeiter EM C14)

lacey@dsea.com (Dan Lacey)

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Juergen Peus <grobi@uni-paderborn.de> writes

Make sure that the files /etc/hostname.le1 and /etc/hostname.le2 exist. Maybe

this is the problem. Is there an entry for the other two Interfaces in your

/etc/hosts ?

If this is guaranteed all should work correctly. What about the boot messages

at this point:

Configuring interfaces: le0 ...

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ice@syrinx.umd.edu (Fredrik Nyman) writes

Suppose you have an /etc/hosts file (or hosts NIS/NIS+ map) looking

like this:

192.42.1.1 myhost myhost-0 # First segment, le0

192.42.2.1 myhost myhost-1 # 2nd segment, le1

192.42.3.1 myhost myhost-2 # 3rd segment, le2

Your /etc/hostname.le0 (created at system installation) will

contain:

myhost

(just that single line).

Create /etc/hostname.le1:

myhost-1

and /etc/hostname.le2:

myhost-2

And reboot.

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anderson@neon.mitre.org (Mark S. Anderson) writes

        ifconfig le1 plumb

        ifconfig le2 plumb

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> Hi All,

> I am looking to sun-managers for help as sun has not yet being able to help on this one.

> I have a SparCenter 2000 with 3 various S-bus controllers which all have Twisted pair ethernet interfaces on them.le0 was configured at in initial install time and works fine.I would like to use the other 2 interfaces but when I type ifconfig -a I can only see le0 as shown below.

>

> # ifconfig -a

> lo0: flags=849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 8232

> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000

> le0: flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500

> inet 155.187.4.2 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 155.187.4.255

> ether 8:0:20:1b:d0:1d

> #

>

> But if I type dmesg I can see all three interfaces as shown below

>

> le0 at lebuffer0: SBus0 slot 0 0x60000 SBus level 4 sparc ipl 7

> le0 is /io-unit@f,e0200000/sbi@0,0/lebuffer@0,40000/le@0,60000

> lebuffer1 at sbi0: SBus0 slot 1 0x40000

> le1 at lebuffer1: SBus0 slot 1 0x60000 SBus level 4 sparc ipl 7

> le1 is /io-unit@f,e0200000/sbi@0,0/lebuffer@1,40000/le@1,60000

> lebuffer2 at sbi0: SBus0 slot 3 0x40000

> le2 at lebuffer2: SBus0 slot 3 0x60000 SBus level 4 sparc ipl 7

> le2 is /io-unit@f,e0200000/sbi@0,0/lebuffer@3,40000/le@3,60000

>

>

> Is there some kernal mod or something I have to do to be able to use the additional interfaces?

>

> I will summarise..

>

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