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Configuration(s) & Problem Description:

1.  Have Solaris 2.3 installed on internal disk drive of SPARCstation 20
- formerly was my default boot disk.
2.  Have Solaris 2.5.1 installed on external SCSI Hard Drive - this is
now my default boot disk.

Recently I installed Solaris 2.5.1 on an external SCSI Hard Drive and
changed the PROM boot parameter to default to this disk drive upon
powerup.

On the surface, Solaris 2.5.1 appears to function correctly in
OpenWindows or CDE desktops.  But ... I have one big problem - access to
other workstations and pc's on the same subnet doesn't work!  I can ping
myself and localhost and they're alive but when I ping other
workstations/pc's - no response.

"ifconfig -a" command shows the interface Lance Ethernet (le0) card up
and configured correctly, ie. proper IP address, correct netmask, etc.

"netstat -rn" command shows the routing table to be set up properly with
appropriate gateway router, etc.

Believe I have /etc/hosts, /etc/netmasks, /etc/hostname.le0,
/etc/nodename, /etc/networks, /etc/resolv.conf, and /etc/nsswitch.conf
files properly set up.

Essentially they're set up the same as Solaris 2.3 /etc files although I
noticed a difference in Solaris 2.3 vs 2.5.1 /etc/netconfig file.
Earlier versions of Solaris, i.e., 2.3, 2.4, had nametoaddr_libs for the
inet family in Solaris, but evidently this was done away with starting
with the Solaris 2.5 release (don't know this to be fact, as I've only
used Solaris 2.3, 2.4, 2.5.1, and 2.6 (no 2.5 experience).   Note: I
first installed Solaris 2.6 on the external hard disk and experienced
this same problem, so I "stepped back" to Solaris 2.5.1 to see if
problem went away.

If I boot the Solaris 2.3 version, I'm FDH (Fat, Dumb, and Happy!).  The
workstation purrs, communicates with all its neighboring
workstations/pc's and loves browsing the Internet!

Go back to Solaris 2.5.1 version, I'm the lonely Maytag Repair man.

Anyone experience this problem before? Any ideas where I've gone
astray?  What I've done wrong or haven't done? Thanks in advance for
your sugestions/information.

Rob E.

P.S.  Is there an archive where I could peruse older questions?  If so,
where can I find it?  Tx.

Rob Elsworth
Voice:  770-793-0624

Quote:>Recently I installed Solaris 2.5.1 on an external SCSI Hard Drive and
>changed the PROM boot parameter to default to this disk drive upon
>powerup.

>On the surface, Solaris 2.5.1 appears to function correctly in
>OpenWindows or CDE desktops.  But ... I have one big problem - access to
>other workstations and pc's on the same subnet doesn't work!  I can ping
>myself and localhost and they're alive but when I ping other
>workstations/pc's - no response.

I had this when I installed 2.5.1 on an LX. When I applied the
recommended patches (which took over 24 hours!!!!!!), the fault
went away.

--
Andrew Gabriel
Consultant Software Engineer

I had a similar problem.  I had to put another file in my /etc dir.  The
file name was defaultrouter and the contents of this file was the ip address
of my router and the problem went away.

There is another file defaultdomain but I am not sure what this does but I
put my domain in it anyway.

Henry

do ot just respont to this remove the first six chars from my email address.