Hi - I tried Solaris 10 and had so many problems trying to get the internet to
work I thought I'd download and install opensolaris instead - and I still can't
get the internet to work...
I am sure this question has been asked a thousand times but having trawled
through the forums I can't find a solution that works.
My router is set to assign an IP address via DHCP and DHCP was selected when
installing opensolaris, but running ifconfig -a seems to indicate two network
connections le0 picking up a default IP address (and the one network manager is
showing) and vfe0 showing the correctly DHCP assigned IP address from the
router.
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root at x4nex1:/export/home/tc# ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232
index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
vfe0: flags=201004843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DHCP,IPv4,CoS> mtu 1500
index 2
inet 10.0.0.184 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
ether 0:30:1b:44:d6:b
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How can I set it such that it picks up vfe0 and not lo0?
Accessing network manager either through the front end or via root shows
nothing under location, the connections tab is empty and the buttons all greyed
out, the General tab correctly shows the host name, DNS is showing the IP
address of the router and the hosts tab is showing the IP address attached to
lo0 (127.0.0.1)...?
Any changes I do make to the network settings, such as setting a new location,
appear to be lost on exiting and restarting the network manager.
Any assistance anyone could offer would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks
Tony
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