Hello,
I'm new to solaris and have an experience with linux. When we see network interface I can see qfe, hme, le0. What is that mean? Is it depend on the network card?
Yes, in practical terms that's exactly what it means.
qfe - quad fast ethernet
hme - happy meal ethernet
eri - eri Fast-Ethernet device
ce - copper ethernet
bge - fiber gigaswift
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bge is actually Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet.
And my rtls0 what means?
ce stands for "cassini ethernet"!
this should be a "realtek" ethernet card...
Thanks a lot, If I want to setup IP address permanently, I just need to modify /etc/hostnames.xxx and put the IP address there? How about the netmask and gateway address?
Thanks in advance.
/etc/netmasks and /etc/defaultrouter
So eri means "eri Fast-Ethernet device".... is that supposed to be like GNU? Someone missed the point of a recursive acronym. "eri rocking interface" might have worked.
I hear the "happy meal" thing a lot, but no one can tell me why someone would name an interface "happy meal". I guess Cassini, while a bit more "uptown", is ultimately just as opaque. I have been told that "le" is "lance ethernet", I can only hope that some dude named "Lance" invented the thing. Can anyone explain these names?
Actually hme as "happy meal" is a deliberate misinterpretation of the acronym which started internally at Sun. hme formally means "Hundred Megabit Ethernet".
ce0 - Cassini was the Sun project code name for the "Gigaswift" chipset.
le - Lance ethernet Comes from the use of the Lance Am7990 chip.
eri is an reverse of the normal pattern - Ethernet Rio because the Rio ASIC is used. This reverse naming might be because the RIO is both an IO and ethernet controller and only the ethernet tracnciever is used.
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The interface netmask and anything else configurable with ifconfig can also be set in /etc/hostname.xxx.