Use the ifconfig command to assign an IP address to the network interface. Type the following at the command line, replacing ip_address with the adapter’s IP address:
#ifconfig ce0 plumb ip_address up
Refer to the ifconfig(1M) man page and the Solaris documentation for more information.
■If you want a
To use the adapter’s ce interface in the Step 1 example, create an /etc/hostname.ce0 file, where 0 is the number of the ce interface. If the instance number were 1, the filename would be
/etc/hostname.ce1.
■Do not create an /etc/hostname.cenumber file for a Sun GigaSwift Ethernet adapter interface you plan to leave unused.
■The /etc/hostname.cenumber file must contain the hostname for the appropriate ce interface.
■The host name should have an IP address and should be listed in the
/etc/hosts file.
■The host name should be different from any other host name of any other interface, for example: /etc/hostname.ce0 and /etc/hostname.ce1 cannot share the same host name.
The following example shows the /etc/hostname.cenumber file required for a system called zardoz that has a Sun GigaSwift Ethernet adapter
#cat /etc/hostname.hme0 zardoz
#cat /etc/hostname.ce0
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