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Chapter 2 Installing the Adapter 23
1. At the command line, use the grep command to search the /etc/path_to_inst
file for ce interfaces.
In the example above, the device instance is from a Sun GigaSwift Ethernet adapter.
For clarity, the instance number is in bold italics.
2. Use the ifconfig command to set up the adapter’s ce interface.
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’sIP
address:
Refer to the ifconfig(1M) man page and the Solaris documentation for more
information.
■ If you want a setup that remains the same after you reboot, create an
/etc/hostname.cenumber file, where number corresponds to the instance
number of the ce interface you plan to use.
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 and IP address
for the appropriate ce interface.
■ The host name and IP address must be listed in the /etc/hosts file.
■ The host name must 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 (zardoz-11).
# grep ce /etc/path_to_inst
"/pci@8,600000/network@1" 0 "ce"
# ifconfig ce0 plumb ip-address up
# cat /etc/hostname.hme0
zardoz
# cat /etc/hostname.ce0
zardoz-11