no interfaces up under solaris 8 1

[doti]

hi, I have a little problem with solaris 8 platform. After instalation, there are no interfaces up. So I cannot configure the network. What can I do? How can I make interfaces???

Thanks in advance for your help...

Doti

 

[doti]

oh.. and another thing...
i've just rebooted my system, and while standing up there was a massage :
ifconfig: elxl0 : no such interface
(...)
no interfaces up
(...)

please help i really have to configure it!!!
and it's slowly starting to kill me.

 

[KenCunningham]

doti - was it a boot -r you issued?

 

[doti]

no, i've just typed "reboot"
should i type boot -r ????

 

[KenCunningham]

You've really got a couple of options:

1. Drop the machine back to the OK prompt with

shutdown -i0 -g0 -y

then type boot -r

the -r telling the system to find any new devices on it's way back up.

If that doesn't work (and sometimes it doesn't:

2. As root, in the root (/) directory, type

touch reconfigure

to create an empty file called reconfigure.

Than shutdown -i6 -g0 -y

to 'bounce' the box, ie shut it down and bring it back up automatically. On the way up it 'sees' the reconfigure file and knows it has to look for new hardware.

Let us know how you get on.

 

[doti]

so...
the first option:
i typed shutdown -i0 -g0 -y
but then the system didn't give me a chance to type boot -r

the second option:

i typed
touch reconfigure
then
shutdown -i6 -g0 -y
and the result was as follows:
While standing up:

...configuring IPv4 interfaces: ifconfig: plumb: elxl0: bad file number
ifconfig: solaris: bad address
elxl0
hostname: solar
(checking some system files)
in.rdisc: no interfaces up
(...)

:-(

 

[doti]

hmmm..... and what about upgrading this system to solaris 10.
Would it be better than????

 

[KenCunningham]

I'm stumped. But if you can work your way through:

http://dbforums.com/t340437.html

you might get more ideas. Anyone else any clues?

 

[doti]

ok, but something has changed
now, i have files elxl and elxl0 in the directory /etc/dev
previously i didn't

by the way thanks a lot for your help.

 

[doti]

hmm...
now when i tried ifconfig -a the result was the same as previously, so:

lo0: FLAGS = 1000849 (up, loopback,running, multicast, ipv4) mtu 8232 index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000

but as i tried ifconfig elxl0 plumb
the result was no longer "bad file number" but now :
"solar elxl: warning: elxl0: link failure"

???????
is there anything i can do about this???

 

[KenCunningham]

Have you a working cable plugged into the NIC, are you sure whatever else it's plugged into is working? Is it second-hand? I've read somewhere that using theese elsewhere can muck up the settings.

 

[doti]

sorry to be disturbing you so much with my problems...
but it seems to be working in a way...

I seem to have interface elxl0 up

ifconfig -a
lo0: FLAGS = 1000849 (up, loopback,running, multicast, ipv4) mtu 8232 index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000

elxl0: flags = 1000843 <UP, BROADCAST, RUNNING, MULTICAST, IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2 inet 126.101.26.145 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 126.101.26.255 ether 0: b0: d0: 9a: 5d: 41

but when i rebooting the system the address changes to 0.0.0.0 and netmask 0

????

 

[doti]

this is a buil-in card.
and the network cable is working.

i don't have problem any more with ifconfig -a, now it's working, so after rebboting the systems all settings are ok. But when i try ping command
e.g
ping -c 4 wp.pl
it gives back the unknown host

any ideas?????
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[KenCunningham]

What is in your /etx/hosts and /etc/netmasks files?

 

[doti]

in my /etc/hosts there are:
127.0.0.1 localhost loghost
126.101.26.145 solar


in /etc/netmasks
128.32.0.0 255.255.255.0
(this line has already been there and i added the following
126.101.26.0 255.255.255.0

and now i cannot ping another host in the network because there is a massage that the host is unreachable. And the last thing, while the system is standing up there is a massage :
WARNING! elxl0: link failure



please help...

doti

 

[KenCunningham]

I assume by 'standing up' you mean 'starting up'. If that's the case, once the system is up, does ifconfig -a show you the interface as you have described above?

 

[doti]

yes i ment starting up (sorry english is my second language...).
when it's already up, ifconfig -a shows
ifconfig -a
lo0: FLAGS = 1000849 (up, loopback,running, multicast, ipv4) mtu 8232 index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000

elxl0: flags = 1000843 <UP, BROADCAST, RUNNING, MULTICAST, IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2 inet 126.101.26.145 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 126.101.26.255 ether 0: b0: d0: 9a: 5d: 41

when i try to ping the computer from my local network e,. ping 126.101.26.146
it gives back:
no answer from 126.101.26.146

 

[KenCunningham]

Do you have an /etc/defaultrouter file, and if so what's in it?

 

[KenCunningham]

Additionally, is there anything of use in Faq60-4083 ?

 

[doti]

1) yes, i created it and there is my gateway address:
126.101.26.254

2) but i noticed one thing now
when i reboot my system and then type ifconfig everything is the same as before booting except for the netmask it should be ffffff00 and it becomes ff000000. i don't know why is it so. in the netmasks file i have 255.255.255.0 so it should be ffffff00.

????

 

[doti]

i'm afraid there is nothibg that i could use, while all the stuff from the beginning of that massage i've already done. like plumbing interfaces.