I have ready many examples on here for connecting to the internet. I am brand new to Solaris and have tried many things. My network/internet setup is as follows. I have a DSL line coming in to my router, all systems on the router have static IP addresses therefore DHCP is not used. We do not use DNS. My router is assigned a default gateway of 198.102.228.108. I have done a sys-unconfig and setup everything correctly as far as my network goes, however there is nowhere to enter my routers ip address. I can ping and communicate with all systems on the network, however when I try to run Netscape I get an error stating there may be a problem with my name server and I may need to set the $SOCKS_NS environment variable. I have added a gateway using the route command but it doesn't associate itself with the hme0 interface. I would truly appreciate any help with this dilemna.

Thanks,
Lonnie

You need to manually add the default route. All version of solaris (fixed in 9) do not configure the default route.

The file you need to modify is:

/etc/defaultrouter

You can add the IP address or name here. If you add the name, you need to add it to the /etc/hosts file.

-Darkavich

Tried that with no success

I got mine set up using a tutorial from this web page:

http://www.techgirl-net.com/

Hope it helps

it sounds like you need to edit your /etc/nsswitch.conf and change hosts to: files dns (or do cp /etc/nsswitch.dns /etc/nsswitch.conf)

then edit /etc/resolv.conf and add:
nameserver 1.2.3.4
nameserver 5.6.7.8

just change the IPs to some DNS server addresses. Get them from your ISP if you don't know them.