Oracle Sun Blade X4-2B Installation Manual page 26

Identifying Logical and Physical Network Interface Names
This section explains how to launch a user shell during the SUSE Linux OS configuration to
obtain the logical and physical network interface names that you need to continue with the
configuration.
Find and record the MAC addresses of all the physical ports from their labels.
Before You Begin
If you have not already done so, select Rescue System and press Enter.
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The message Loading Linux Kernel appears followed by the SUSE splash screen, and then the
Choose a Keyboard Map screen appears.
In the Choose a Keyboard Map screen, select the appropriate keyboard configuration, and click
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OK.
The user shell launches, and the Rescue Login prompt appears.
At the Rescue Login prompt, type root to log in, and then press Enter.
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The Rescue prompt appears.
At the Rescue prompt (#), type the following command, and then press Enter to display all
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network interfaces (active and inactive).
# ifconfig -a
The output of the Linux SUSE named and physical named network interfaces appear. Each
interface found will list output similar to the following example:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:4F:8D:52:BE
eth1
eth2
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inet addr:10.182.92.196 Bcast:10.182.93.255 Mask:255.255.254.0
inet6 addr: fe80::214:4fff:fe8d:52be/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:14463420 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1061441 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1282809896 (1.1 GiB) TX bytes:118848836 (113.3 MiB)
Interrupt:54 Base address:0xc000
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:4F:8D:52:BF
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:21 Base address:0x2000
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:4F:8D:52:C0
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:44 Base address:0x6000