[geeks] Solaris 10 networking is giving me fits

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Michael Parson <mparson at bl.org>
>Date: 2006/09/18 Mon PM 04:31:12 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Solaris 10 networking is giving me fits

>On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 05:12:26PM -0400, velociraptor wrote:
>> On 9/18/06, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net>wrote:
<snip>
>>> Sent note off-list to Micah directly, but why not just try "sys-unconfig" and establish network settings then?
<snip>
>> Because sys-unconfig has a much bigger impact than just the IP changes
>> (name service, root password, removing various files)...I *never* use
>> sys-unconfig.  Though I can see where it would have value as a nasty
>> trick on someone trying to pass themselves off as an experienced
>> Solaris SA.
>>
>> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/806-0625/6j9vfim1c?a=view

As I read the original posting, he built up the box without specifying any networking, then they original poster wanted to configure networking (as I read it, the machine is nowhere near being in use yet)...

>I'd never even heard of sys-unconfig till I was interviewing at one
>shop.  They asked me how I'd move an existing Solaris box onto my
>network, I ran through the files I'd edit and restart networking.  That
>was the wrong answer, the right answer was to run sys-unconfig.  I thought
>maybe I'd learned a new trick, so I made a mental note and moved on.
>
>Then I read the manpage for it.  Ugh.
>
>I didn't get the job, but based on the interview (there was a lot of
>stuff like that, where there was only one right answer, and it was the
>using a goofy Sun tool), I probably would not have been happy there.

Well, yes - there are pin-heads in management...

Lionel