Identifying Network Interface Names For A Pre-Installed Solaris Os; To Identify Network Interface Names For The Preinstalled Solaris Os - Sun Microsystems Fire X4150 Installation Manual

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c. Record the Red Hat logical network interface name with the physical port
8. When you are done, do one of the following to exit the user shell.
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9. Restart the Red Hat Linux installation program.
Identifying Network Interface Names
for a Pre-installed Solaris OS
The Solaris OS that might be pre-installed on your server is unconfigured. Before
configuring the OS, use the procedure below to identify the network interfaces by
their logical and physical names (MAC addresses). You record this information,
which you need during configuration, and then return the OS to its unconfigured
state before proceeding with the configuration.
Note – The procedure in this section is used for a preinstalled version of the Solaris
OS. If you are installing a version of the Solaris OS, see
Physical Network Interface Names While Installing the Solaris OS" on page
▼ To Identify Network Interface Names for the
Preinstalled Solaris OS
1. Log in to the system as root and run ifconfig -a plumb in a command shell.
The command discovers all installed network interfaces. The shell prompt (#)
appears when the discovery completes.
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eth0 entry in the first column refers to the Red Hat Linux logical named
interface. This first column in the output identifies the logical names Red Hat
assigned to the network interface.
HWaddr 00.14.4F.0C:A1:F2 entry in second column (first row) refers to
the physical MAC address of the network port.
MAC address for future reference. You will need to refer to this record when
configuring the network interfaces during the Red Hat OS installation.
From the ILOM, select Remote Control ->Remote Power Control->Reset.
From the ILOM Remote Console, select Ctrl Alt Delete in the Keyboard
menu.
From other consoles, press Ctrl->Alt->Delete.
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