The Volume Manager (vold) daemon in Sun Solaris will automatically detect and mount a CDROM when inserted on Sun Solaris under /cdrom (if CD is not labelled )or /cdrom/<label> where <label> is the label of the CD In instances where vold is not running or when there is a need to manually mount the CDROM […]
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Just as we saw modifying the caching time for ARP entries in the ARP table here. We can modify the default time that a sun Solaris system can hold the routing entries. The default time for which a dynamically learnt Route entry in the routing table is 20mins (1200000ms)
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Sometimes you run into situations to try and understand where the files for your package that you just installed on your Sun Solaris Server. While this is no big deal for geeks lets help “not so geeks” with a way to find the files and path of installed package.
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Sun Patch Check is a simple opensource utility from “Titania” that runs in UNIX or Linux systems to check the Patch installation status in a Sun Solaris server running on a SPARC or Intel platform and compare it to its own database of the latest recommended patches for that version of Solaris operating system. I
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Do you you DHCP to get the IP Address for your Solaris Server or workstation then its worth understanding what your DHCP Agent by default requests for from the DHCP server and help avoid certain network issues like “unknown” hostname issue as I’ve descrbed here. The DHCP Agent by default requests for the Subnet Mask
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If you are using DHCP to receive IP Address for your Sun Solaris system, you may end up with no hostname assigned to the system. This can be confirmed when there is no hostname at the prompt or if the output for the command “hostname” is as follows: # hostname unknown or the /etc/hosts file
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IP Multipathing (IPMP) in Sun Solaris enables the load balancing capabilities and resilience for Network connections with multple Network Interface Cards (NIC). I discussed here about providing resilience for network connections with multiple NICs on the system. Now, we take it to the next step and make the network connections not only resilient but also
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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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IP Multipathing (IPMP) in Sun Solaris enables the load balancing capabilities and resilience for Network connections with multple Network Interface Cards (NIC). IPMP is mostly used to provide resilience with network connections wherein a Sun Solaris Server with multiple NICs can be configured such that if the primary NIC fails it automatically failover to the
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The Default Gateway or the Default Router is the IP address (IPv4) to which all the traffic to any target destination(s) which does not have a route in the Routing Table of the server will be forwarded. This Default Gateway is maintained in the file /etc/defaultrouter [IPv4 only]
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