September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
8h 53m
English
Content preview from Solaris™ 9 Network Administrator Exam Cram™ 2 (Exam CX-310-044)
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Configuring a Router on a Running System
The decision to start the routing daemon in.routed and the router discovery protocol daemon in.rdisc is taken when the startup script /etc/rc2.d/S69inet executes. You can also configure your system to act as a router without needing to reboot.
 | To configure a system as a router, it must have multiple network interfaces connected and configured. |
Follow these steps to configure your system as a router:
1. | Be sure the files /etc/defaultrouter and /etc/notrouter do not exist. If they do, remove them. Also, make sure that all network interfaces are correctly configured and have entries present in the /etc/inet/hosts ... |