I have a Solaris 10 Sparc box that I need to connect to the internet

I have no idea how to go about this.

All I know is that the Solaris box is on the same network as our
Windows machines which have direrct internet connection.

Where do I start in trying to connect Solaris to the internet? What
info do I need from the network admin guy?

Loial wrote:
> I have a Solaris 10 Sparc box that I need to connect to the internet
> 
> I have no idea how to go about this.
> 
> All I know is that the Solaris box is on the same network as our
> Windows machines which have direrct internet connection.
> 
> Where do I start in trying to connect Solaris to the internet? What
> info do I need from the network admin guy?
> 

Suppose you run DHCP you just go
ifconfig <if> dhcp start

Then to have that to stick do

touch /etc/hostname.if
touch echo > /etc/dhcp.if



To get a list of your interfaces, <if> here, do

ifconfiga -a plumb
ifconfig -a

Skip lo0 as that is the loopbackinterface.




If you do _not_ have DHCP the you must ask for a IP-address from your 
netadmin and set that to your interface with

ifconfig <if> 1.2.3.4 up

and some other stuff. Don't hesitate to ask if you have more questions.