[Sunhelp] Replacing ethernet card.

[Dale Ghent]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Kevin Stevens wrote:

| I'm replacing my 10Mb le1 ethernet card with a 100Mb hme0 card tomorrow, and
| wondering about the best way to do it under Solaris 8 (SS20, if it matters).

| Might it be as simple as deleting the hostname.le1 file, adding a hostname.hme0,
| downing the box, replacing the interface, booting, and plumbing hme0?

or simply renaming hostname.le1 to hostname.hme0

| There are no routes on this interface other than the default static that Solaris
| assigns, nor any DHCP, ipfilter, or other services.

cd /etc; mv hostname.le1 hostname.hme0
init 5

<remove le1 card>
<insert hme0 card>

power on
break to 'ok' prompt
boot -r

done.

/dale