Question

Solaris 10 - Public and Private IP

Asked by: entuityadmin

Hi,

I'm trying to link 2 solais 10 machines via cross over cable.

They already have a NIC with a public IP on the network and so we have added additional nics - connected a cross over cable to the first 2 nics and assigned 192.168.10.1 and 192.168.10.2 to the servers respectively.

Only they won't communicate with each other. I am not sure if there's anything else I need to configure but both cards display the following;

bge0: flags=1000803<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 3
        inet 192.168.10.1 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.10.255
        ether 0:3:ba:ab:46:4b

qfe0: flags=1000803<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 3
        inet 192.168.10.2 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.10.255
        ether 8:0:20:d0:1e:61

notice both do not have "Running" state.

Any help would  be appreciated thanks!

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2009-10-15 at 15:36:18ID24816627
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Answers

 

by: oocytePosted on 2009-10-15 at 19:21:42ID: 25586547

Just so I get the situation, this is how your system is setup, and your public IP subnet is NOT 192.168.10.0/24, correct?

Com1                        Com2
some-nic-public-ip          some-nic-public-ip
bge0  <---- crossover -->   qfe0

                                              
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by: entuityadminPosted on 2009-10-15 at 23:54:39ID: 25587430

that's correct. I seem to have made progress and both public and private ips are now working.
however, the public IP (and when I say public IP it's an internal 10.44/16 address accessible by everyone on the network) was applied during the build of the servers, but the private IP 192.168/24 I am applying using ifconfig.

Everything works except, once I reboot the server, the settings are lost and i have to start again.

how do I stop this?

 

by: liddlerPosted on 2009-10-16 at 02:26:40ID: 25587937

your need to put the IP address (or a name linking to the ip address in the /etc/hosts) in a file called
/etc/hostname.qfe0

 

by: entuityadminPosted on 2009-10-16 at 02:57:19ID: 25588050

Thanks I did that on both servers, one recently built and the other, slightly older.
Recently built one come up okay, slightly older one for some odd reason disables ssh and has it in an offline state..
restarting doesn't help - it's bee on svcadm enable -s ssh for the past 5mins.
This happened after a reboot.

bash-3.00# svcs -xv
svc:/network/nfs/client:default (NFS client)
 State: offline since 16 October 2009 09:36:57 BST
Reason: Start method is running.
   See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-C4
   See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M mount_nfs
   See: /var/svc/log/network-nfs-client:default.log
Impact: 16 dependent services are not running:
        svc:/system/filesystem/autofs:default
        svc:/system/system-log:default
        svc:/application/management/seaport:default
        svc:/application/management/snmpdx:default
        svc:/application/management/dmi:default
        svc:/milestone/multi-user-server:default
        svc:/system/basicreg:default
        svc:/system/zones:default
        svc:/application/management/sma:default
        svc:/milestone/multi-user:default
        svc:/application/graphical-login/cde-login:default
        svc:/application/cde-printinfo:default
        svc:/network/smtp:sendmail
        svc:/network/ssh:default
        svc:/system/dumpadm:default
        svc:/system/fmd:default

svc:/application/print/server:default (LP print server)
 State: disabled since 16 October 2009 09:36:11 BST
Reason: Disabled by an administrator.
   See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-05
   See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M lpsched
Impact: 2 dependent services are not running:
        svc:/application/print/rfc1179:default
        svc:/application/print/ipp-listener:default

 

by: entuityadminPosted on 2009-10-18 at 21:23:44ID: 25602626

seems it was an entry in the vfstab file that hung the system and nothing to do with the network cards.

Closing.

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