[Sunhelp] How to disable unconnected e-net ports?

[Robert.Cross at scottish-newcastle.co.uk]

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Hello, 

I've got a SPARCserver 1000 up here which I've just upgraded from Solaris 2.4 to
Solaris 2.6. Unfortunately, this system has four cpu boards, each one of which 
has
it's own ethernet port. Only the first board has a connection to it's port.

The problem is that the bootup sequence insists on probing all of these ports 
and
complaining repeatedly that there's no carrier - that's because it ain't 
connected!

Is there any way that I can tell the system to confine it's configuration 
attempts to
only the first ethernet interface?

Thanks

Robert Cross, Systems Programmer, Scottish & Newcastle plc.
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