SUMMARY: V880 question on ethernet interfaces and services

Ok, thanks to all who responded!!!  There were more than a few and too 
many to list, but here's the general consensus of what I've received:

With regards to the startup scripts, they're the usual /etc/rc*.d 
directories.  The scripts are also as found on a linux system in 
/etc/init.d  S##name is a start script, K##name is a stop script.

For which runlevel corresponds to which "action" do a "man init.  
Additionally, I was told that /etc/rcS.d is the startup scripts 
directory.  Further, a combination of rcS.d and rc2.d handle most of 
the startup and services.  Specifically, S69inet and S72inetsvc for the 
network configuration.  S30network.sh in /etc/rcS.d handles the network 
interfaces.
Another warning - the network scripts in general don't support stop or 
restart parameters, as they're "designed to bring up the interfaces, 
not to bring them down." (thanks to Darren Dunham for a very specific 
set of information on this).

Network interfaces are loaded through files in /etc such as 
/etc/hostname.ge0.  the ge0 is the interface and the file contains the 
hostname.  That hostname should be defined in /etc/hosts.  This only 
counts for currently installed and configured network interfaces.
But, the general network card interfaces for "plumbing" are as follows:
ge# is the Gigabit Ethernet card.
100Mb cards are hme#
Quad-fast-ethernet cards are qfe#
SunBlade 150's (and apparantly the SunFire's) have eri# ports.
To load an interface which hasn't be loaded at boot time, you use 
ifconfig with the plumb command.  For a dhcp interface, you'd use the 
following:

ifconfig eri0 plumb auto-dhcp

The last part of the network config can be found in /etc/defaultrouter 
for setting the route information and in /etc/netmasks for setting the 
netmask configuration.

For more information on the V880 the following link to the sun docs:
http://docs.sun.com/db/coll/792.1
http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/816-2127-10

As for the different services running, I was told you can shut off 
pretty much anything in /etc/inetd.conf
One person suggested commenting the following out:
talk, finger, rsh, rquota, chargen, cachefs, kcms, bootps, comsat
and anything labeled experimental in /etc/services can be shutdown in 
/etc/inetd.conf.  If you're not running a dhcp server you can also 
comment out the dhcp stuff too.  One suggestion was to stop using inetd 
and use xinetd instead (xinetd being more secure).

And last, but not least, the SMC requirements.  First, it seems no one 
has a clear idea of exactly what is required by the SMC (Mike Penny 
gave the only real clue) but one thing is the sadmind in 
/etc/inetd.conf.  Most people apparently aren't using it, primarily 
because it's "a pig".  But, no one seemed sure of what the SMC 
requires, how it's configured, etc.

Thanks!
Jason McIntosh

Jason McIntosh
Programmer/Analyst
University of Missouri
573-884-3865

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