[SunHELP] newbie unclear on post installation steps of solaris 8 on ultra sparc...

Jeffrey Nonken jeff_work at nonken.net
Fri Mar 14 10:34:49 CST 2003


On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:33:43 -0500, "William Enestvedt"
<Will.Enestvedt at jwu.edu> wrote:

> Jeffrey Nonken wrote:
> >
> > /etc/defaultrouter has your gateway:
> > 192.168.1.1
> >     I gather that's one of those things that's not always
> > necessary, but if the machine gets confused about what to use
> > as a router (mine did last night), that will set it straight.
> >
>    You might want to also execute 'touch /etc/notrouter' so that the system
> won't even *bother* trying to route traffic next time it boots.
> -wde


OK, I'm a little vague on this... does this force it to stop trying to route
stuff for itself altogether? Is that what you mean?

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