Thanks to all the the vauluable advice:
Grant Lowe
Michael Stapleton (Hit it on the head with the hardware call!)
Vinnie German
Bruce Wilkins
Alex Vinson
The problem was in the network hardware. (bad port on hub)
I switched the connection and all is well with the configuration as
described below.
Andy
-- Andrew Sit 1074 Dearness Drive UNIX Systems Administrator London, Ontario, Canada Centric Systems Corporation N6E 1N9 andy@centricsystems.ca (519)649-2363 x237 > > I have an Ultra2, Solaris 7 5/99 machine that I'd like to move from one > private network to another segment. It is going to be used as an application > server and nothing else, so it needs minimal networking services. Currently, > it is configured as follows > > hme0: flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 10.1.1.XXX netmask ffffff00 broadcast 10.1.1.255 > ether 8:0:20:a7:70:31 > > and I'd like to move it to 11.54.112.XXX, same netmask. > > I went and edited the files in /etc/inet, switched the cabling, and then > issued > > ifconfig hme0 down > > ifconfig hme0 11.54.112.XXX netmask ffffff00 broadcast 11.54.112.255 up > > but I still get no ping response at all from this machine. > > I'm obviously missing something. Any help will be greatly appreciated! > > Andy. > -- > Andrew Sit 1074 Dearness Drive > UNIX Systems Administrator London, Ontario, Canada > Centric Systems Corporation N6E 1N9 > andy@centricsystems.ca (519)649-2363 x237
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