How To Add An Ethernet Interface - Sun Microsystems Enterprise 250 Owner's Manual

network administrator must enter the system's IP address and host name into the
namespace on the network name server. For information about setting up a network
name service, consult the Solaris System Administrator AnswerBook for your specific
Solaris release.
The hme Fast Ethernet device driver for the system's standard Ethernet interface is
automatically installed with the Solaris release. For information about operating
characteristics and configuration parameters for the hme driver, please see Platform
Notes: The hme Fast Ethernet Device Driver. This document is available on Solaris
on Sun Hardware AnswerBook, which is provided on the SMCC Supplement CD for
the Solaris release you are running.
If you want to install an additional network interface by means of a PCI card, you
must configure it separately, after installing the operating system; see:
4 "How to Add an Ethernet Interface" on page 198

How to Add an Ethernet Interface

Before You Begin
Follow this procedure to add a PCI card that provides an additional Ethernet
interface.
You must perform the following tasks:
4 Install the system; see "How to Install the Enterprise 250 Server" on page 44.
4 Install any additional PCI Ethernet interface cards that you wish to configure;
see "How to Install a PCI Card" on page 114.
4 Attach a cable to the new Ethernet port and to the network; see "How to Attach a
Twisted-Pair Ethernet (TPE) Cable" on page 200 or "How to Attach an MII
Ethernet Transceiver" on page 202.
What to Do
1. Assign a network host name to the interface.
The host name must be unique within the network. It can be made up of
characters and numbers. Do not use a dot in the host name. Do not begin the
name with a number or a special character.
Usually an interface host name is based on the machine host name. For example,
if the machine is assigned the host name zardoz, then the additional Ethernet
interface could be named zardoz-1. The machine's host name is assigned when
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