I'm planning on configuring Solaris to be a router. So far I've formatted and installed Solaris 8 on a SUN station which has two NICs an internal one and another on scsi . I chose the end user installation group for the setup. Chose le0 for primary network interface out of le0 and le1. I then chose not to install DHCP, and to use DNS. After configuring the primary interface through the installation and inputting DNS info. I reboot the machine and in accordance with Lance Spitzners' write up on configuring network interface cards (http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/interfaces.html), went about configuring the other NIC (scsi) I created a hostname.le1 file in /etc containing "st-sun" added to the /etc/hosts file, the line "172.16.142.254 st-sun" added to the /etc/netmasks file, the line "172.16.143.0 255.255.254.0" According to all the documentation I can find on-line this is all that is nessary to configure the NIC, and when I reboot it should be plumbed and then configured. However the interface is not being brought up or assigned any IP information when I boot Solaris. When I enter "ifconfig -a" le1 is shown with no ip configuration. I can manually configure the NIC by entering "ifconfig le1 172.16.142.254 netmask 255.255.254.0 up", and I've been able to ping through the card on the 172.16.0.0 network upon doing this; however whenever I reboot the NIC is not getting configured.. arggh, How can I troubleshoot, or correct this so that the NIC is configured correctly at boot? Thanks for any help.

Hey, You can add a file in the /etc/init.d directory, and link it with ln -s to the /etc/rc1.d and /etc/rc2.d directory to respectivly kill & start the file. In the file you bring up the NIC and voila. See /etc/init.d/ for an example. Hope it helps, Taakie