How do you setup Solaris to use RoadRunners cable modem service?
RoadRunner uses General Instrument’s SURFboard or other cable modem hooked up to a coax cable on one side and a straight-through Ethernet cable on the other side. The real throughput is about 6-MB/sec. on downlinks and 768KB/sec. on uplinks. The cable modem looks like a router to your computer. RoadRunner configures home systems with Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), which provides the IP address, default route, and name servers. RoadRunner only supports Windows and Macs, but it works fine with Solaris (they just won’t help you setup or diagnose Solaris DHCP). You need Solaris 2.6 or higher for DHCP.
RoadRunner uses General Instrument’s SURFboard or other cable modem hooked up to a coax cable on one side and a straight-through Ethernet cable on the other side. The real throughput is about 6-MB/sec. on downlinks and 768KB/sec. on uplinks. The cable modem looks like a router to your computer. RoadRunner configures home systems with Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), which provides the IP address, default route, and name servers. RoadRunner only supports Windows and Macs, but it works fine with Solaris (they just won’t help you setup or diagnose Solaris DHCP). You need Solaris 2.6 or higher for DHCP. To set it up for Solaris, follow these steps, as root: • “touch /etc/dhcp.iprb0” (replace the “.iprb0” with whatever the ethernet interface for your system might be, as shown by “ifconfig -a”) • “cp /dev/null /etc/hostname.iprb0”. You need to make *SURE* that this file is EMPTY – otherwise, DHCP configuration won’t work. • Make sure that /etc/inet/hosts only has one line in it, t
