[SunHELP] newbie unclear on post installation steps of solaris 8 on ultra sparc...

[Jim Pennino]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 10:33:43AM -0500, William Enestvedt wrote:
> Jeffrey Nonken wrote:
> >
> > /etc/defaultrouter has your gateway:
> > 192.168.1.1
> >     I gather that's one of those things that's not always
> > necessary, but if the machine gets confused about what to use
> > as a router (mine did last night), that will set it straight.
> >
>    You might want to also execute 'touch /etc/notrouter' so that the system
> won't even *bother* trying to route traffic next time it boots.
> -wde
> --
> Will Enestvedt
> UNIX System Administrator
> Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI
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>From man defaultrouter:

     Use of a default route, whether received from a DHCP  server
     or  from  /etc/defaultrouter, prevents a machine from acting
     as an IPv4 router, even if that machine  does  not  have  an
     /etc/notrouter file.

-- 
Jim Pennino