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Name: newbie_in_sol
Date: September 30, 2002 at 08:57:03 Pacific
OS: Solaris8 intel
CPU/Ram: Pentium4, 512MB
Comment:

I am a totally new in Solaris but really trying HARD to learn it. I was able to install Solaris 8 (2/02) on my Pentium 4. I did not configure the GUI since my video card is not in the HCL so I only have the text version of it.
Now it is installed but I can't ping any other ip address except itself. I have other hosts on the network (Windows). They can ping each other but not the Solaris PC.
What can I do to solve this?

Thanks in advance.



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Response Number 1
Name: Aakash
Date: October 1, 2002 at 07:05:09 Pacific
Reply:

#ifconfig -a
check if you have the network device
you will also get 'lo0' its loopback device,
and other eg. rtls0 (realtek) NIC device.
check which you have

if NIC not recognised, install respective driver.
else
continue next:
#netstat -rn
you get to see the 'Flags' and check for 'UG' and also match the 'interface' except default. as default may tooo work...
somehow not there, use command 'route'
eg:
/usr/sbin/route add net
is where you prefer. eg: 192.168.0.0
addr of your router, generally, x.x.x.254?....

Ex:
# route add net 192.168 192.168.1.254
or
# route add net 192.168.0.0 192.168.1.254
Both are same...

if this doesn't work start the router daemon
'/usr/sbin/in.routed'...
then reprocess above statements...


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Response Number 2
Name: newbie_in_sol
Date: October 1, 2002 at 20:15:11 Pacific
Reply:

I've already checked the outputs of ifconfig and netstat based on the recommendations that I found in this forum and it seems that everything is fine. I have also tried what you suggested for the "route add" command, restarted the solaris box but still the same problem.


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Response Number 3
Name: Aakash
Date: October 2, 2002 at 23:08:12 Pacific
Reply:

Check your RJ-45 (Ethernet) cable....
look, probably -problem lies there...


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Response Number 4
Name: newbie_in_sol
Date: October 3, 2002 at 18:14:24 Pacific
Reply:

I've already done that. In fact, it is exactly the same pieces of hardware that I install and use Windows on. When I try to do a ping, I even see the lights on the hub blinking but it seems that the packets just "die" on the wire and go nowhere.


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Response Number 5
Name: Darkavich
Date: October 9, 2002 at 15:54:31 Pacific
Reply:

What sort of network concentrator do you have? Solaris 8 has lots of problems with 10/100mbps/hubs. It tries to connect at full duplex and creates all sorts of problems.

Check the lights on the hub. is it valid?

I ended up just purchasing 100mbps switches rather than hubs and my problems went away.

Thanks,
-Darkavich


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