[SunHELP] DHCP help

[Will Mc Donald]

I'm thinking it's probably the lack of /etc/defaultrouter that's the
problem. (I meant to suggest this earlier but got sidetracked).

David, just put the IP address of the gateway off of your network into
/etc/defaultgateway and that might do the trick.

Will.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Leslie V Brigance" <brigance at us.ibm.com>


> David,
> I'm sure you're aware of this already because you have other boxen getting
> to the Internet
> but how (what) are you using for address translation to change your
> 192.x.x.x to something
> allowed out on the net?
> Is that device (firewall, router, etc) aware of your hard coded address?
>
> Les
>
>
> "Anthony J. Gabrielson" <agabriel at home.tzo.org>@sunhelp.org on 10/26/2001
> You don't need to switch it back to dhcp.  Check your /etc/nsswitch.conf
> file, make sure the hosts line looks like hosts: dns, files.  Also make
> sure you have a resolv.conf that has your DNS servers in it.
>
> Anthony
>
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, David Goldsobel wrote:
>
> > Simple question from a base level beginner.
> > I just reinstalled Solaris 8 and thought that I would staticly assign it
> > an ip address (192.168.1.4). I can ping around my network but can't get
> > to the internet. Netconfig does not work the same as in Red Hat Linux.
> > How do I set it back to DHCP?
> > Thanks
> > David
>