Network Configuration

[idiotboy]

Hi,

I have an Ultra 1. It is running Solaris 8. The OS is installed correctly and is behaving normally. I wish to connect it to my hub so that I can telnet to it from elsewhere within my house only.

My /etc/hosts looks like this
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.0.30 ultra1 loghost
169.254.164.12 laptop

when I try to ping my machine it does not respond. I cannot ping my box from anywhere else on the network.

I believe that I have to reconfigure my network card so that it is using the correct ip address (guessing) and might need to ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.30 and perhaps go through some plum and deplumb sort of stuff (guessig still).

Does anyone have a step by step I can follow.

I mostly work at programming and bought this box so I could do stuff from home and know nothing about admin.

Any help, pointers would be greatly appreciated.

 

[jimbopalmer]

The Laptop is set to DHCP, but is finding no DHCP server. I would set a static address on the laptop of say 192.168.0.40 with a netmask of 255.255.255.0 and a gateway of 192.168.0.1 (or the address of your router, if you have one) I tried to remain child-like, all I acheived was childish.

 

[idiotboy]

jimbopalmer,

thanks for the post.

When I meant that I couldn't ping my solaris box, I meant that I couldn't ping from itself

e.g. hostname
$ulta1
$ping ultra1
$no answer from ultra1


or from anywhere else on the network.

I can ping 127.0.0.1 (but I believe this to be the loopback and of no use to me.

 

[Annihilannic]

The easiest way would probably be to just change the IP address associated with "ultra1" in your /etc/hosts file and reboot it.

If you have are still having problems please post the output of ifconfig -a and netstat -rn. Annihilannic.

 

[idiotboy]

Thanks,that did it. I didn't think that I had to perform a reboot after.

Cheers

Really appreciate the help everyone

take care,

Chris