Installation guide

4.4.6 NetRAIN Interface Conﬁguration Change

The method for conﬁguring a NetRAIN interface will be improved in a future

release of the operating system. If you conﬁgure a NetRAIN set in Version

4.0F, or did so in a previous releases of the operating system, you will need

migrate your set to the new conﬁguration at that time.

4.4.7 Network Services Fail to Start with NetRAIN Interface

If you conﬁgure a NetRAIN set in the inet.local ﬁle as documented in

the Network Administration guide, and the NetRAIN interface is the only

network interface conﬁgured on your system, network services will fail to

start automatically at boot time. To work around this problem, conﬁgure

your NetRAIN interface in the rc.config ﬁle as follows:

1. Log in as root.

2. If you have already conﬁgured NetRAIN, remove the ifconfig line in

the inet.local ﬁle that starts the NetRAIN interface. It should look

similar to the following:

ifconfig nr0 18.240.32.40 netmask 255.255.255.0 add fta0,fta1

3. Set the adapter name for the NetRAIN interface you are conﬁguring.

Using the parameters from the previous step, you would enter the

following command:

# rcmgr set NETDEV_0 nr0

4. Enter the following command to set the ifconfig parameters that are

used to initialize the NetRAIN interface (the "\" character indicates line

continuation):

# rcmgr set IFCONFIG_0 nr0 18.240.32.40 netmask \

255.255.255.0 add fta0,fta1

5. Enter the following command to indicate to the system that you have

conﬁgured a network interface:

# rcmgr set NUM_NETCONFIG=1

Note that network services will not start if NUM_NETCONFIG is set to 0.

6. Restart network services to effect the changes.

If you need to deconﬁgure the interface for any reason, use the rcmgr utility

to delete the appropriate NETDEV_0 and IFCONFIG_0 entries and update

the NUM_NETCONFIG variable to 0. Then reboot your system. See the

rcmgr(8) reference page for more information.

If you plan to add a non-NetRAIN interface to your system in the future, you

will need to deconﬁgure the NetRAIN set in the rc.config ﬁle and

reconﬁgure it in the inet.local ﬁle as documented in the Network

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