Hi,

Sorry if this appears to be a "huh ?" question, but just wanted to know
if it is neccessary to have a NIC to get Solaris Zones working? My
motherboard does not seem to have any internal LAN card too.....So will
I be able to get Solaris Zones working on it?
I have a Gigabyte 8LD-533 motherboard (I guess its 8LD-533C which does
not have a NIC nor any RJ-45 Jack).....Please let me know.

Regards,

Pritesh

"pritesh" <pritesh.ugrankar@gmail.com> writes:
> Sorry if this appears to be a "huh ?" question, but just wanted to know
> if it is neccessary to have a NIC to get Solaris Zones working?

No.

But if you don't have some kind of external network access, then the
only way into the zone will be via zlogin.

> My
> motherboard does not seem to have any internal LAN card too.....So will
> I be able to get Solaris Zones working on it?

Sure.

> I have a Gigabyte 8LD-533 motherboard (I guess its 8LD-533C which does
> not have a NIC nor any RJ-45 Jack).....Please let me know.

I think that motherboard does have an Ethernet interface. It's a
Realtek chipset:

http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/tai...f-1.0.9.tar.gz

(Are you the same person who posted a similar question to the "Sun
Tools & Products" forum? It looks to me like you got a fairly
complete answer there.)

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