Editing Solaris 10 System Administration Part I (section)

==== /etc/hostname.xxn file ====

* file contains information that configures named interface

<table style="text-align: left; width: 50%;" border="1"
 cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
     <td>Entry</td>
     <td>Interface</td>
</tr>
<tr>
     <td>e1000g0</td>
     <td>First e1000g (Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit family device driver) Ethernet interface in the system</td>
</tr>
<tr>
     <td>bge0</td>
     <td>First bge (Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet device driver) Ethernet interface in the system</td>
</tr>
<tr>
     <td>qfe0</td>
     <td>First qfe (Quad Fast-Ethernet device driver) Ethernet interface in system</td>
</tr>
<tr>
     <td>nge0</td>
     <td>First nge (Nvidia Gigabit Ethernet driver) Ethernet interface in the system</td>
</tr>
</table>

* The /etc/hostname.bge0 file contains host name or IP address of system that contains the bge0 interface.
* the host name contained in the file must exist in the /etc/inet/hosts file so that it can be resolved to an IP address at boot time
* You can edit /etc/hostname.bge0 file to contain either host name or IP address from /etc/inet/hosts file

'''NOTE In this example the Solaris machine uses DHCP without defined host so host is unknown.'''
<pre>root@unknown # ls -l /etc/hostname.bge0
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root           1 May 17 10:30 /etc/hostname.bge0
root@unknown # cat /etc/hostname.bge0   

root@unknown # more /etc/inet/hosts
#
# Internet host table
#
127.0.0.1       localhost       loghost
192.168.1.10     unknown # Added by DHCP
root@unknown # ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 
bge0: flags=1004843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DHCP,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
        inet 192.168.1.10 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        ether 0:14:4f:47:bf:9e 
root@unknown #</pre>