How do you connect Solaris to my cable modem?

How do you connect Solaris to my cable modem?



Grab this e-zine article "xDSL and cable modems" from:

http://www.zdjournals.com/sun/9905/sun9951.htm
(Inside Solaris, May 1999)
The article covers instructions on enabling Solaris with a cable ISP.
See also the next question on RoadRunner.


At least for the the East Brunswick, NJ, servers, I had the easiest time
with DHCP (not the static setup): 



/etc/hosts:


       127.0.0.1    localhost    CCxxxxx-A  # where CCxxxxx-A is your hostname


       24.x.x.x      CCxxxxx-A    loghost   # where 24.x.x.x is your assigned IP





/etc/nsswitch.conf:


       hosts:        files dns





/etc/resolv.conf


       domain ebnsk1.nj.home.com


       nameserver 24.3.196.33


       nameserver 24.3.196.33





/etc/dhcp.elx0 (empty file)





/etc/hostname.elxl0 (empty file)


       NOTE: replace "elxl0" with your NIC device name



No /etc/defaultdomain, /etc/defaultrouter,
or /etc/netmasks files are used.
This info is handled by DHCP.
Reboot and you're hooked up.
Here's my (partially disguised) netstat -rn and ifconfig -a outputs: 



$ netstat -rn


Routing Table:


  Destination           Gateway           Flags  Ref   Use   Interface


-------------------- -------------------- ----- ----- ------ ---------


24.x.x.0               24.x.x.x            U      3      2     elxl0


224.0.0.0            24.x.x.x              U      3      0     elxl0


default              24.x.x.1              UG     0      44


127.0.0.1            127.0.0.1             UH     0     236      lo0





$ ifconfig -a


lo0: flags=849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 8232


        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000


elxl0: flags=4843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DHCP> mtu 1500


        inet 24.x.x.x netmask ffffff00 broadcast 24.x.x.255



[Thanks to Alan Lucero.]


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