SUMMARY: Boot via hme0

From: Guenter Millahn (Guenter.Millahn@Informatik.TU-Cottbus.DE)
Date: Tue Dec 07 1999 - 17:43:23 CST


Dear fellow admins,

first let me thank to all who responded:
        Jonathan.Loh@bankofamerica.com
        torsten.huebler@sachsenlb.de
        Arthur Darren Dunham <add@netcom.com>
        Sean Quaint <squaint@provide.net>
        Scott Howard <showard@macquarie.com.au>
        Klaus Heinz <klaus.heinz@agc.fhg.de>
        "German, Vinnie" <VGerman@nomurany.com>
        Craig Russell <crussell_1969@yahoo.com>
        "Neill, Mark" <Mark_Neill@CSX.com>
        Adrian Stovall <adrians@solarsystems.com>

My orig question was:
> I upgraded a SparcStation20 (sun4m arch) with an 100 MBit/s Fast Ethernet
> Duplex SBus card. I don't want to have the onboard 10 MBit/s Interface
> to be the default, it should be the FE card. Also I want to do a net boot
> via the new 100 MBit/s NIC.
> Do I have to change same kernel or EEPROM settings to enable this.
> Can anybody of you give me some recommendations?

First part of the question: Make another net boot device:
1. Go to the OBP by pressing Stop-A
2. watch-net-all shows you th complete NIC path(s)
3. define an alias: nvalias net-100 /complete/device/path (or another abbr.)
4. make the alias permanent if required (nvramrc)
5. define the new alias as the default boot device.
6. reboot by 'boot net-100'

Second part: Make another default ethernet device (hme0 instead of le0).
1. Move /etc/hostname.le0 to /etc/hostname.hme0, and check /etc/nodename
2. If you want to use the le interface as a 2nd network card for routing
   purposes or so, configure it by using ifconfig and make the changes in
   /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname.le0, and /etc/nodename

Thanks again to all responders,
Guenter

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