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Determining ethernet MAC address from Open Boot prompt

Today I had a need to jumpstart SunFire V240 using network interface in one of its PCI slots. In order to do that I need to find the MAC address of that interface, preferably with least amount of hassle. There was no Solaris installed and all I had was ok prompt. So I took a [...]

Posted on June 3, 2008 at 19:02 by somedude · Permalink · 2 Comments
In: networking, openboot

Viewing devaliases inside Solaris

Usually, when you need to view or manipulate content of EEPROM you can use eeprom command in Solaris. However, it’s not of much use if you need to view current device aliases. There is a simple way to do so using prtconf command. Just look for section aliases: bash-3.00# prtconf -vp Node 0xf002d470 disk: ‘/pci@9,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0/disk@0,0:b’ [...]

Posted on January 22, 2008 at 19:51 by somedude · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: openboot, solaris, solaris utilities