Sun Microsystems FC Switch-8 and Switch-16 816-0830-12 - Manual (Page 89)

Chapter 5 Switch Activation 59
4. Back up the affected management station configuration files:
5. On a host connected to the same subnet as the switch, edit the /etc/ethers file
by adding the MAC address and switch name.
For example:
In this example:
■ 8:0:20:7d:93:7e is the MAC address
■ switch-name is the name of the switch you are installing.
6. Edit the /etc/hosts file with the IP address and switch name.
For example:
In this example, 192.129.122.111 is the assigned IP address.
7. Edit the /etc/nsswitch.conf file to reference the local system files.
To ensure that the Solaris software environment uses the changes made to
/etc/ethers and /etc/hosts files, edit the host and ethers entries in the
/etc/nsswitch.conf file so that the files parameter appears before the
[NOTFOUND=return] statements.
8. Determine whether the RARP daemon is running by typing:
# cp -p /etc/nsswitch.conf /etc/nsswitch.conf.SAV
# cp -p /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.SAV
8:0:20:7d:93:7e switch-name
192.129.122.111 switch-name
hosts: nis files [NOTFOUND=return]
ethers: nis files [NOTFOUND=return]
# ps -eaf | grep rarpd