[SunHELP] Still problems setting up quad card

[Hichael Morton]

you can have multiple nics/interfaces on the same subnet.

it is not complicated at all.

the only requirement is that each nic have a different mac address!

sun machines, be default, give the host's mac address to every 
nic/interface in the sun machine.

you can give each nic a different mac address in the obp or with ifconfig.

      man ifconfig
      man eeprom

      eeprom local-address?=true

at the obp

      ok setenv local-address?=true

the obp variable may be different.  check eeprom or do a printenv in the 
obp.  the varbiable will be local-*address?.  the setting will be true 
or false.  setting the variable to true will cause cause each nic to use 
its own mac address.

check eeprom (man eeprom) to see if the command needs a "=" or just uses 
a space.

if the answerbook2 is installed on your sun machine, the obp guide and 
the solaris system administrator guides should be installed on your sun 
machine.  if not, the guides are feely viewable and downloadable at 
docs.sun.som



jamesd wrote:
> On Sunday 29 June 2003 12:42 pm, Patrick Marquetecken wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>After spending a whole weekend searching google, my setup hase to work!
>>But helas, it don't.
>>
>>I have a broadband router connected to a cable modem the cable modem get a
>>ip from the ISP, and the broadband router does all the dhcp, nat to
>>192.168.123.X
>>
>>
>>Here what i dit:
>>- Created a /etc/hostname.qeX with different names
>>- Add ipaddress and hostnames to /etc/hosts
>>- /etc/resolv.conf with two DNS ipaddresses of my ISP
>>  195.130.130.4 -  195.130.130.132
>>- Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf for hosts= files dns and networks = files dns
>>
>>At boot time the computer says "Machine is a router".
>>
>>Option 1
>>- Created a /etc/defaultrouter with 192.168.123.254 (broadband router)
>>  le0 connected to broadband router
>>  nslookup proxy.pandora.be works
>>  ping proxy.pandora.be fails
>>
>>Option 2
>>- Created a /etc/gateways with net 0.0.0.0 gateway 192.168.123.254 metric 1
>>passive or static le0 connected to broadband router
>>  nslookup proxy.pandora.be
>>  *** Can't find server name for address 195.130.130.4: No response from
>>server *** Can't find server name for address 195.130.130.132: No response
>>from server *** Default servers are not available
>>  ping proxy.pandora.be fails.
>>
>>
>>netstat -nr
>>
>>default gateway
>>Routing Table:
>>  Destination           Gateway           Flags  Ref   Use   Interface
>>-------------------- -------------------- ----- ----- ------ ---------
>>192.168.123.0        192.168.123.106       U        2      3  qe3
>>192.168.123.0        192.168.123.105       U        2      0  qe2
>>192.168.123.0        192.168.123.104       U        2      0  qe1
>>192.168.123.0        192.168.123.103       U        2      0  qe0
> 
> 
> okay i'm not solaris expert yet... but i have setup multiple networkig cards 
> in the same machine... you can't connect more than one networking card in one 
> machine to the same net.. 
> you need to set up each port to a different net
> 
> example:
> 192.168.123.0        192.168.123.106       U        2      3  qe3
> 192.168.124.0        192.168.124.106       U        2      0  qe2
> 192.168.125.0        192.168.125.106       U        2      0  qe1
> 192.168.126.0        192.168.126.106       U        2      0  qe0
> 
> there are ways around it but it involves dividing the the network class into 
> smaller parts using special netmasks, and is complicated.
> 
> you can also look in bonding but it requires a network swich that supports 
> bonding. 
> 
> 
>>192.168.123.0        192.168.123.102       U        3      0  le0
>>224.0.0.0            192.168.123.102       U        3      0  le0
>>default              192.168.123.254       UG       0      6
>>127.0.0.1            127.0.0.1             UH       0      6  lo0
>>
>>
>>/etc/gataways
>>Routing Table:
>>  Destination           Gateway           Flags  Ref   Use   Interface
>>-------------------- -------------------- ----- ----- ------ ---------
>>192.168.123.0        192.168.123.106       U        2      5  qe3
>>192.168.123.0        192.168.123.105       U        2      0  qe2
>>192.168.123.0        192.168.123.104       U        2      0  qe1
>>192.168.123.0        192.168.123.103       U        2      0  qe0
>>192.168.123.0        192.168.123.102       U        3      0  le0
>>224.0.0.0            192.168.123.102       U        3      0  le0
>>127.0.0.1
>>
>>
>>Another machine (Gentoo linux) connected to the broadband router but uses
>>dhcp from the broadband router can do all without a problem.
>>
>>Any help is more than welcom.
>>Patrick
> 
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