daniel@bermuda.island.com (Daniel Smith) (02/20/91)
1) You set up a Sun with a new OS, say, 4.1.1
2) You have an ethernet adapter all hooked up, so your Sun is physically
on the network
3) Now, does anyone know of a way where the new Sun could "grab" internet
numbers (192.9.205.40, etc) of one of its neighbors? Could etherfind
possibly help?
The reason I ask is: I'm going to be teaching others how to configure
some turnkey systems, and if I can put something into a shell script that
could go out and ftp/somehow get the /etc/host file from another machine
on a local network, then that would be one less question that I would have
to ask a user of the script ("what's the internet address of a another
machine on the network?"). Thanks for any leads!
[[Ed's Note: Assuming you have a host that's active on the network, you
could watch the arp cache of the Sun (ie: arp -a) and get the IP number
from there. -bdg]]
Danielcpetty@sunburn.west.sun.com (Craig Petty) (03/23/91)
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1) You set up a Sun with a new OS, say, 4.1.1
2) You have an ethernet adapter all hooked up, so your Sun is physically
on the network
3) Now, does anyone know of a way where the new Sun could "grab" internet
numbers (192.9.205.40, etc) of one of its neighbors? Could etherfind
possibly help?
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You may be interested in the lastest SunOS 4.1.1 revision b.
It is supposed to include some automatic network configuration routines
which make it easy to configure a "fresh" sun. I believe it is similar to
the interface on the old 386i's. where you could just plug a new machine
into the network and have it figure out who it is / should be.