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Enable/Disable IP Forwarding in Solaris 10 without reboot

IP packet forwarding is the process of routing packets between network interfaces on one system. A packet arriving on one network interface and addressed to a host on a different network is forwarded to the appropriate interface. In Solaris 10, IP Forwarding can be enabled or disabled using the routeadm & ifconfig commands as against […]

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Multiple Interfaces (NICs) use single MAC-Address in Solaris on SPARC

In SPARC Servers running Sun Solaris, you can see multiple Network Interface Cards (NICs) or interfaces are all sharing a single MAC-Address than having a unique Factory-default MAC-Address assigned to it. This is because by default, a System-Wide MAC-Address is assigned to all the NICs and hence a ifconfig -a output will show only one

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