Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Network config

2006-02-15 Thread Michelle Olson
Hi James, Thanks for the confirmation, I think this is a valid RFE to at least add examples with CIDR notation to the System Administration: IP Services manual. At most, we could replace all of the addresses with CIDR notation, add details about CIDR and its benefits, and add examples of the e

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Network config

2006-02-14 Thread Michael . Ditto
Michelle Olson wrote On 02/14/06 12:02,: > /etc/hostname. is documented in several procedures on > docs.sun.com That's good, I expect to find examples, procedures, tutorials and the like in the System Administration Guides and similar documents on docs.sun.com. But I don't usually look there for

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Network config

2006-02-14 Thread James Carlson
Michelle Olson writes: > No, the examples don't use IPv4 addresses with CIDR notation. They should, though. > Very few > of the IPv4 address examples use CIDR prefixes. I > should think that you could use CIDR prefixes in the > /etc/hostname.interface file, but I am not sure. Yes, you can. A

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Network config

2006-02-14 Thread Michelle Olson
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Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Network config

2006-02-13 Thread Michael . Ditto
UNIX admin wrote On 02/13/06 15:37,: >>Just putting this into your /etc/hostname.rh0 file >>will do the job: >> >> my-hostname/24 > >When was this put in? >Where exactly on docs.sun.com is this documented? There is a short snip about >CIDR in Solaris 10 administration, but nothing on the CIDR en

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Network config

2006-02-13 Thread UNIX admin
> Two fairly minor nits with this otherwise complete > advice: > > - "netmask + broadcast + up" is already assumed as > as part of the > interface configuration. It's better to leave it > e it out. Accepted. > - /etc/netmasks is an ancient hack, and doesn't > 't work as well as one > might like

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Network config

2006-02-13 Thread Jaideep Das
Yes thats exactly what I ment by 'up', thanks for the help. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org