[SunHELP] Solaris 10's networking broken?

[Matt Gabriel]

Greg -

	Yes. I get the error: "hme0: bad address" when plumbing the interface 
up or down, or doing anything with ifconfig.

	~ Matt Gabriel


On Feb 20, 2004, at 9:14 PM, gonufer wrote:

> On 02/20/04 18:01, Matt Gabriel wrote:
>> ifconfig doesn't seem to recognize these ports exist. I've juggled 
>> around the ports manually to make sure it's not a hardware issue with 
>> hme0 or the quad card, no go.
>
> Did you plumb the interfaces?  They need to be plumbed before they'll 
> show up in ifconfig -a.  The system normally plumbs them for you if 
> /etc/hostname.{ifname} exists but if this is after an initial install 
> and there's a problem configuring the interfaces then those 
> /etc/hostname.{ifname} files may not exist yet.
>
> ifconfig hme0 plumb
> etc.
>
> -greg