[SunHELP] My last straw in getting Solaris 8 on the Internet.

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> gather, nothing is wrong - I should be connected. I have an X86 box

 Can you give any details at all? The above isn't of much
help to you.

> so it appears that the Solaris box is getting the proper network
> information, I just can't get to the Internet (note that I am set up
> statically). There is nothing weird about my setup - it just goes from

  If you have set up your network information statically,
then your Solaris box got its network information from you.
Did you mean that it is set up differently?

> the modem to the NIC (which is one that is on the HW compatibility
> list). The only thing I haven't done is install any of the patches -
> simply because I can't connect to be able to get them, however, I don't
> know if this would make any difference anyway. I know this isn't a lot

 You don't need any updates or patches unless that is the
only way to get a driver for your NIC. But you state that
that isn't the case.

> of info, but any help is appreciated. It isn't much use if I can't get
> it to connect to the Internet.

 Posting this request isn't of much use if you can't give
any details. Like _what_ have you configured? What 
steps/configurations did you do on the Linux system that
you didn't do on the Solaris system? What is the output
of the debugging that you did? (i.e.- "netstat -rn" and
"ifconfig -whatever", etc...)
What are you doing to test connectivity to the Internet?
Have you tried reaching a site via its IP address instead
of using the domain name (in case you didn't configure
hostname lookups properly)? Have you tried running snoop to
see if you can detect _any_ traffic over your connection?
Are you using the same cat5 cable on the Solaris system
as you did with the Linux system? Etc...

 -david

p.s.- I just received this email, you may want to fix your
system date unless you really did post this email on
July 29.