Prashant Poman wrote: > Hi, > I have installed Solaris 10 on my PC.MotherBoard is intel D865GSA and On > board LAN Card of realtek 8139.All drivers are installed. > I have internet connection of VSNL Broadband with DHCP.They have provided me > router.I don't know their IP address. > I executed the sys-unconfig and answered as follwows. > > select a language -- 0(English) > select a locale --0 (English) > key board layout --US-English > Networked -- yes > use DHCP for rtls0-- yes > enable IPv6 for rtls0-- no > configure kerberos Security --no > Name Service -- None > NFSv4 Domain Configuration -- use the NFSv4 domain derived by the system > > and so on.. > it further asked my root password, date time settings etc. > What went wrong in above mentioned steps? > > Do I need to contact my ISP to get it's IP address? > > further I executed ifconfig and netstat.The results were as follows. > > # ifconfig -a > lo0: flags=2001000849 mtu 8232 index 1 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 > rtls0: flags=1004843 mtu 1500 index 2 > inet 192.168.1.100 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > ether 0:16:76:84:7b:b0 > # netstat -nr > > Routing Table: IPv4 > Destination Gateway Flags Ref Use Interface > -------------------- -------------------- ----- ----- ---------- --------- > default 192.168.1.254 UG 1 0 rtls0 > 192.168.1.0 192.168.1.100 U 1 1 rtls0 > 224.0.0.0 192.168.1.100 U 1 0 rtls0 > 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 12 482 lo0 > # > > Still Ping doesn't work. > Do I need to configure DNS? Which values should I use over there? > Do I need to make any changes in the configuration? > > Thanking You! > > Prashant Poman. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > Check the /etc/nsswitch.conf file. When the Solaris installer doesn't configure the nic initially, it changes the dns lookup order to omit dns and use only local host information. The host: files line should also have dns on the end. Also, check /etc/resolv.conf to make sure it's populated.
James
