SOLARIS NETWORKING

1.The NICS in the system are listed by the following command

# dladm show-dev

2. Information about links on the data-link layer is displayed by

# dladm show-link

3. You also add information to certain configurationfiles to create a persistent network configuration. The most common files are /etc/hostname.interface, where interface is the specific interface that is used on the system, and /etc/hosts.

4. To set IPADDRESS to in Solaris X86 do the following.

# ifconfig rtls0 plumb 192.168.0.20/24

5. To check the ipaddress

# ifconfig -a

6. To make the configuration persist across the reboot do the following.

# echo 192.168.0.20/24 > /etc/hostname.rtls0

Add the corresponding ipaddress and hostname to /etc/hosts

# nano /etc/hosts

192.168.0.20/24 solaris1

7. To add the defaultrouter to the system

# echo 192.168.0.1 > /etc/defaultrouter

8. To enable packet forwarding in Solaris

# svcadm enable ipv4-forwarding

9. To start Routing protocol

# svcadm enable route:default


10. Perform a reconfiguration reboot

# reboot –- -r

11, To check packet forwarding is enabled

# routeadm

12. To disable packet forwarding

# svcadm disable ipv4-forwarding

13. To perfom reconfiguration reboot

# reboot -- -r

14. To view the routing table.

# netstat -rn

15.  To add a purticular route

#  route -p add -net 10.0.5.0/24 -gateway 10.0.5.150/24

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