Networking a New Sun Workstation

The Sun workstations come with TCP/IP as part of the overall Unix product. A transceiver device is required to attach the workstation's cable to the BNC connection on the Ethernet. All that is needed to make it aware of the wire is to set up a few parameters.

The programs needed to make the necessary changes can be run from a shell.

• To change the IP address, run:
  /usr/etc/install/easyinstall

• To change the default router, edit (with vi or other editor) the
  /etc/defaultrouter
file.

• To find the ethernet address type:
  dmesg | head
  

  Note: This will only work if the debug messages are readable by the owner of the shell you are running. Another possible way of getting the ethernet address is to scan the system log file which normally lives in the /var/adm/message file.

• To find the operating system revision, type:
  showrev -a

• To set the network mask, you must edit the /etc/netmasks file such that it contains the line:
  130.184.0.0 255.255.255.0

Collecting the ethernet address and setting the IP and router numbers are all that is required.