Configure Broadband Internet Connection on Solaris

You have to follow some procedural steps as provided below:

• login as root. You can use vi or other editor to modify files but be careful because you have the root previlege you can damage the system without having a notification.
  
  
• Enter your PC's ip address in /etc/hosts. For example, after adding
  the last line my /etc/hosts look like:
  
  

  127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost 10.8.18.15 arncorp.net loghost

  
  
• Write the your default gateway ip address to /etc/defaultrouter file.
  
  

  # echo defaultGatewayAddress > /etc/defaultrouter

  
  My /etc/defaultrouter looks like:
  
  

  10.8.18.21

  
  
• Write dns server information to /etc/resolv.conf
  
  

  # echo nameserver nameserverAddress1 > /etc/resolv.conf # echo nameserver nameserverAddress2 >> /etc/resolv.conf

  
  
• Enter netmasks info on /etc/netmasks. For example, I have added this line to /etc/netmasks:
  
  

  10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0

  
  
• In the file /etc/nssswitch.conf modify the enty for hosts to "file dns" from "file" so that system resolves dns internally.
  
  
• Start your dns client if it is disabled.
  
  

  svcadm enable dns-client