From: Jose R. Garcia (jrgarcia@ptwalqa.com)
Date: Mon Oct 27 2003 - 03:14:09 EST
Thanks a lot Mike!
Finally I found the problem, Sun Screen was running OK on the server before
sys-unconfig but not after it, so it wasn't so serious.
>Hello!
>
>We encountered the same thing on three Ultra 2 boxes running Solaris 9.
>After executing sys-unconfig to change IP and hostname, the boxes would
>respond to pings but would have no network connectivity - no NIS, etc.
>Even a full re-install of the OS (several times!!) did not correct the
>problem. The boxes would sometimes bind to the local domain, and sometimes
>not. Users could not log in remotely or telnet in.
>
>In this case, what eventually cured it was to remove an unused PCI
>fibre-optic NIC, re-install the software, then put the fibre-optic NIC
>back in. It worked on all three boxes. Your situation may be different,
>but in our case, it worked. I'm afraid I don't know what bit of the
>hardware was retaining a setting that was being cleared by removing the
>second NIC, but it may shed a little light on the problem.
>
>Good luck!
>
>P.S. I tried sending this message from my home account (shaw.ca), but
>it was blocked by your mail server...
>
>
>Mike Brodie
>ATS Tech Shop 153
>CFB Esquimalt
>Victoria, BC Canada
>250-363-2483
> >Had to change IP address in one of the two network interfaces of a
> >server.
> >It's a Sun Fire 480 running Solaris 9 and with a mirrored disk. After
> >using
> >sys-unconfig found that pings are correct from and to the server, but
> >have
> >no connectivity from and to the server; i.e: no telnet and no ssh.
>Config
> >files seem to be correct.
> >
> >Thanks in advance, will summarize.
Josi Ramsn Garcma
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