Solaris 8 - Reconfiguring the interfaces

From: Patel, Ketan (2) (ketan.patel.2@credit-suisse.com)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2006 - 11:03:18 EDT


On sun V240, solaris 8, interfaces are bge0, 1, 2, 3. We use bge0 and 3 for ipmp and virtual ip.

Networking team decided to use .1q trunking and we have to rename the interfaces to reflect the vlan id.

To do this -

1. We modify /etc/hosts to reflect new interface names (bge0 to bge2000 and bge3 to bge2003)
2. We renamed interfaces files (/etc/hostname.bge0 and bge3 to /etc/hostname.bge2000 and bge2003)
3. We edit /etc/hostname.bge2000 and /etc/hostname.bge2003 file to reflect the name of new interface name (lucas-bge0-ipmp to llucas-bge2000-ipmp and so)

When we reboot the system, it gives the error:
ip_rput_dlpi(bge2000): DL_ERROR_ACK for DL_ATTACH_REQ(11), errno 8, unix 0
ip_rput_dlpi(bge2000): DL_ERROR_ACK for DL_BIND_REQ(1), errno 3, unix 0
ip_rput_dlpi(bge2000): DL_ERROR_ACK for DL_PHYS_ADDR_REQ(49), errno 3, unix 0
ip_rput_dlpi(bge2000): DL_ERROR_ACK for DL_UNBIND_REQ(2), errno 3, unix 0
ip_rput_dlpi(bge2000): DL_ERROR_ACK for DL_DETACH_REQ(12), errno 3, unix 0
ifconfig: SIOCSLIFNAME for ip: bge2000: no such interface
ip_rput_dlpi(bge2003): DL_ERROR_ACK for DL_ATTACH_REQ(11), errno 8, unix 0
ip_rput_dlpi(bge2003): DL_ERROR_ACK for DL_BIND_REQ(1), errno 3, unix 0
ip_rput_dlpi(bge2003): DL_ERROR_ACK for DL_PHYS_ADDR_REQ(49), errno 3, unix 0
ip_rput_dlpi(bge2003): DL_ERROR_ACK for DL_UNBIND_REQ(2), errno 3, unix 0
ip_rput_dlpi(bge2003): DL_ERROR_ACK for DL_DETACH_REQ(12), errno 3, unix 0
ifconfig: SIOCSLIFNAME for ip: bge2003: no such interface moving addresses from failed IPv4 interfaces: bge2000 (couldn't move, no alternative interface) bge2003 (couldn't move, no alternative interface).

ifconfig -a doesnt show any interface except lo0. Any clue, what I am missing?

Ketan

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