SUMMARY: IP numbers, netmasks and network numbers

From: Sridhar <ssridhar_at_raven.pharmacia.com>
Date: Tue Mar 04 2003 - 10:39:43 EST
Thanks to everyone who responded. The key suggestion was along the line

"When sun networking tries to assign a netmask via /etc/netmasks, it will
look for the LONGEST POSSIBLE match and then assign the corresponding mask."

And thanks to the suggestion from Darren Dunham <ddunham@taos.com> I was
even able to test it online.
ifconfig ce0 unplumb
ifconfig ce0 plumb
ifconfig ce0 inet `cat /etc/hostname.ce0` netmask + broadcast +
Then did a "ifconfig ce0" and verified that the netmask and broadcast
address were correct.

Sridhar

Original message:

>We are installing a second NIC on our E450 running solarais8. The onboard
>NIC is used for regular network and this gigabit card will be used in a
>backup LAN for doing nightly backups. The user manual talks about
>installing drivers
>installing the card
>boot -r
>set up /etc/hostname.ce0 and make entry to /etc/hosts
>make entries to ce.conf (like if we need auto negotiation off etc)
>reboot again
>
>I also learnt there is a patch I need to install at some point (111883).
>
>Question is, is that all?
>The IP number I received is in a different sub-domain (understandably) and
>also differnt netmask (255.255.248.0 vs the onboard NIC's 255.255.255.0).
>Its gateway is also different from the one in /etc/defaultrouter
>Where would I enter the different netmask and gateway info?
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Received on Tue Mar 4 10:44:51 2003

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