Help! We have a netgear router that is our gateway/DHCP server. We are trying to set up DHCP client on solaris 8 and are have some problems. We are new at this so if anyone could help we would appreciate it. We tried to use dhcpconfig but it seemed to want to set up DHCP Server which is not what we want.

try ifconfig dhcp

try ifconfig "interface" dhcp

I too am setting up the same route on Solaris 8. Red hat linux setup DHCP during install. Solaris is more difficult. If I can figure it out I will post what I did.

This page explains it well... http://www.rite-group.com/consulting/solaris_dhcp.html but I still have not figured out how to get the name server to resolve address...hosts file does have the dns entry.

Message to Bogdan If you want to get the comp to resolve addresses, creat a file file in '/etc' called 'resolv.conf' and put the following info: domain 'yourdomainname' nameserver IP.IP.IP.IP #your ISP's DNS nameserver IP.IP.IP.IP ISP's 2nd DNS then open the file '/etc/nsswitch.conf' inside you will find a line that looks like: hosts: files Change this to: hosts: files dns and you comp will resolve names to addresses. If your connection is setup via DHCP it should make these changes for you on startup but check the 'nsswitch.conf' file anyway.

Message to greg If you only have one network card in the solaris comp, then you can run the command 'sys-unconfig' this will revert your system to a blank state with no network settings. Restart the comp and you will automatically be taken into the setup of your system, including the network. Its a very simple setup. Also if you need to setup the gateway, you might need to create a file in '/etc' called 'defaultrouter' in this file put the IP of your router. I hope this helps, have fun :-)