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]] Daniel
cpetty@sunburn.west.sun.com (Craig Petty) (03/23/91)
----- 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? ------ 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.