[Sunhelp] Solaris 2.4 network problem

[Michael C. Vergallen]

Try 

route add default xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 1

where 1 is the number of hops. 

Michael
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On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Eric Williams wrote:

> I have just performed an clean installation of, believe it or not, Solaris
> 2.4 on a 4/330 Sparc machine. Things went fine but I cannot seem to get the
> box to see the network. I have compared the /etc files with another box
> (2.5.1) that is working on our network and everything seems fine. The error
> I get is when route is run to add the gateway address, it returns network
> unreachable. I know this can't be true because I can boot off the 2.4 CDROM
> and run ifcongfig and route to get network access on this machine.
> 
> Any suggestions on where to look? I have checked ifconfig and the
> hostname.le0 files. I have a /etc/defaultrouter file with the gateway
> address in it.  nswwitch.conf is setup for files only except for hosts
> where I have added a dns entry also. I setup resolv.conf with the
> nameservers. Tried different ethernet jacks and cables.
> 
> Can't think of what I am missing?!
> 
> Thanks for any tips!
> 
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