How to Specify a Router for the Network Client

1. If you have only one router on the network and you want the network configuration server to specify its name automatically, ensure that the network client does not have a /etc/defaultrouter file.

2. To override the name of the default router provided by the network configuration server:

   1. Create /etc/defaultrouter on the network client.

   2. Type the host name and IP address of the machine you have designated as the default router.

   3. Add the host name and IP address of the designated default router to the network client's /etc/inet/hosts.

3. If you have multiple routers on the network, create /etc/defaultrouter on the network client, but leave it empty.

Creating /etc/defaultrouter and leaving it empty causes one of the two dynamic routing protocols to run: ICMP Router Discovery protocol (RDISC), or Routing Information Protocol (RIP). The system first runs the program in.rdisc, which looks for routers that are running the router discovery protocol. If it finds one such router, in.rdisc continues to run and keeps track of the routers that are running the RDISC protocol.

If the system discovers that routers are not responding to the RDISC protocol, it uses RIP and runs the daemon in.routed to keep track of them.

After Installing a Network Client

After you have finished editing the files on each network client machine, do the following on the network configuration server.

1. Add entries for the hosts in the ethers and hosts databases.

2. Add entries for the hosts to the bootparams database.

   To simplify matters, you can type a wild card in the bootparams database in place of individual entries for each host. For an example, see "bootparams Database".

3. Reboot the server.