Sun Microsystems 1.0 - Manual (Page 38)

12 SunFDDI/P 1.0 Adapter User’s Guide—May 1997
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Installation Requirements
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Hardware and Software Platforms
SunFDDI/P is designed for Sun-4u PCI-based system architectures (32
Mbytes RAM minimum) running a Solaris 2.5.1 Hardware: 4/97
environment.
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Disk Space
A machine with 1600 KBytes of disk space is required to install SunFDDI/P.
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Host names and IP Addresses
A unique host name and IP address must be assigned to each SunFDDI/P
device installed in your machine. If you are installing more than one
interface in a single machine, each interface must be connected to a different
subnet of a network.
Declaring IP Addresses for SunFDDI/P
You must assign a unique IP address to each SunFDDI/P interface. If you have
more than one networking interface installed on your machine—either
multiple SunFDDI/P interfaces or some other LAN interface (for example, an
Ethernet interface)—each interface must be connected to a different subnet.
Before installing the SunFDDI/P software, update the files on your NIS/NIS+
server to assign IP addresses and host names for the SunFDDI/P interfaces
that you are going to configure. If you are not using a name service, update the
/etc/hosts file on each machine in the network to add the IP addresses and
host names of the stations attached to the FDDI ring.
The installation script updates the /etc/hosts file on the local machine and
enters the IP addresses and host names assigned to the SunFDDI/P interfaces
in which it is installed.