From: Stan Horwitz (stan@temple.edu)
Date: Wed May 16 2007 - 13:51:21 EDT
My network administrator and I are scratching our heads trying to
figure out why a particular server I run won't accept an ifconfig to
set up a VLAN.
This morning, my network manager changed my server's connection from
a regular connection to a tagged VLAN connection. It started off with
a ce3 interface in "ifconfig -a" but I had to drop that and I am
trying to replace it with
/sbin/ifconfig ce1600000 plumb ipaddress netmask 255.255.252.0
broadcast brdaddress up
The /etc/hosts file already contains the appropriate entry for this
VLAN from when the IP address was assigned to ce3 and the /etc/
netmasks file also contains the relevant entry from before. I also
created a file
/etc/hostname.ce1600000 with the name of the host in it.
Yet when I issue the above command, I get an error that says
ifconfig: SIOCLIFNAME for ip: ce1600000: no such interface
I can still do
/sbin/ifconfig ce3 plumb
so I think the network card is okay and it was working fine until
this change was made.
Someone on another list suggested I need kernel patch 112233-11, but
I am not too familiar with Solaris 9, so I am not clear on how to
determine if that patch is installed. Usually, that sort of thing is
handled by a colleague, but he's not available right now. I checked
the command "showrev -p" but I don't know what to look for. Could
this be the problem?
What am I doing wrong? My network administrator and I have been
working on this for the past hour and googling only tells me
information that I already know.
Any tips will be greatly appreciated.
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