CONFIGURING NETWORK INTERFACES IN SOLARIS

Network interfaces in Solaris machines are usually named as hmen or len , where n is a number. The term hme or le actually shows a driver type attached to a network interface. Number n is usually 0 for the first interface, 1 for the second, and so on. If you have only one network adapter installed in your host, the name for this interface is probably hme0. There are three basic steps to configure interface hme0 with the IP address 192.168.2.222 and netmask 255.255.255.0

STEP BY STEP

2.1 Configuring a Network Interface

Follow these steps to configure a network interface:

1.
Create a file, /etc/hostname.hme0, with a single line. Name the host as shown here: 
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2.
Edit the /etc/inet/hosts file to ...

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