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Installing and Configuring the ge Device Driver 17
1. At the command line, use the grep command to search the /etc/path_to_inst
file for ge interfaces.
For Sun GigabitEthernet/P:
The following example shows the device instance from an adapter installed in slot 1.
For Sun GigabitEthernet/S:
The following example shows the device instance from an adapter installed in slot 0.
2. Create an /etc/hostname.ge file, where num is the instance number of
the ge interface you plan to use.
If you wanted to use the adapter’s ge interface in the Step 1 example, you would
need to create a /etc/hostname.ge0 file, where 0 is the number of the ge
interface. If the instance number were 1, the file name would be
/etc/hostname.ge1 .
■ Do not create an /etc/hostname.ge num file for a Sun GigabitEthernet adapter
interface you plan to leave unused.
■ The /etc/hostname.ge num file must contain the host name for the appropriate
ge interface.
■ The host name should have an IP address and should be entered in the
/etc/hosts file.
■ The host name should be different from any other host name of any other
interface: for example,
/etc/hostname.ge0 and /etc/hostname.ge1 cannot
share the same host name.
The following example shows the /etc/hostname.ge num file required for a
system called zardoz that has a Sun GigabitEthernet adapter ( zardoz-11) .
# grep ge /etc/path_to_inst
“/pci@1f,4000/network@1” 0 “ge”
# grep ge /etc/path_to_inst
“/sbus@1f,0/network@1” 0 “ge”
# cat /etc/hostname.ge0
zardoz
# cat /etc/hostname.ge1
zardoz-11