Installation guide

AT-2971 Solaris Sparc

Adding Adapters

There are two ways of adding additional adapters to an existing

installation:

❑ Remove the driver with pkgrm, insert the additional adapters, and

then reinstall the driver using pkgadd.

❑ Add the necessary adapters manually.

Installing the

Adapter using

pkgrm and

pkgadd

To add additional adapters, perform the following procedure:

1. Enter pkgrm SKGEsol.

You do not need to clean up /etc/hosts, /etc/netmasks, and the

configuration file.

2. Insert the additional adapter.

3. Reinstall the driver with pkgadd.

4. Use the same interface name as before.

The corresponding entries will be found and can be reused.

5. In case the addresses have been swapped after reinstallation, swap

the numbers of the corresponding /etc/hostname.skgeX files (or

simply swap the cables).

6. (Optional) Reboot your system.

The driver has been installed.

Manual addition

To manually add additional adapters, perform the following procedure:

1. Look in directory /dev for the devices skge* before and after

installation of the additional adapter(s) to find out which instance

number to use for the hostname.skgeX file.

2. Insert the additional adapter.

3. Enter the necessary entries for each additional adapter (IP address,

interface name, network address, netmask) in the corresponding

files. Refer to Procedures During Installation

on page 72 for further

information.

4. (Optional) Reboot your system.

5. Look in directory /dev for the devices skge* (Refer to Step 1).