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DHCP, I dislike thee, or maybe it's my Linksys router
Here's my setup: I have two boxen connected to the router via cat5 (plus a laptop docking station.) One desktop is a bog-standard Windows XP box; the laptop that goes to the docking station is also Windows XP; the solaris box is actually another laptop (my SparcLE) running Solaris 9.
The Windows boxen, I can live with them being dynamic IPs. The one time I want a static reference (for printer sharing), I can use Windows' shares to access. All good there.
However, I want to use the SparcLE as a local server, for queue references and deployments, things like that. So I want it to have a static IP.
I have yet to get that to work. I've configured the network appropriately, setting DNS, static IP (192.168.14.60, which is under the DHCP-assigned range of 192.168.14.100-150), gateway (the router's local IP, 192.168.14.1)... yet the gateway never works. Ever.
I have no idea why. It'd be great to get this to work; anyone know of anything?
Whoops. Turns out my reliance on loctool was misplaced. It wasn't setting
the actual ip properly. The good news is that now everything works!