I am a huge fan of Sun Microsystems.I love Solaris 10.I love ZFS.I love RBAC.I love zones.I really love T2/T2+ processors.I especially love the T5140 and X4450 servers.
One thing I cannot figure out though, is why Sun lets obviously delirious cocaine addicts package their software. Maybe I’m exaggerating but I think that many will…

A friend asked me how he could see the network utilization in Solaris. It seems like a fairly simple request but for some reason this is not a simple command line away.
In Linux I would instinctively go straight to iptraf. I don’t know if iptraf is the tool of choice these days but I’m…

Static routes are a very common necessity once your networks become even a little complex. Whether you need to route specific traffic over a VPN or setup specific test addresses for IPMP failover, static routes are indispensable.
For many years the “correct” way of configuring static routes in Solaris has been to create an…

I recently installed Solaris 08/07 on a T2000 with a Sun Quad GbE x8 PCIe Low Profile Adapter (X4447A-z) inside. The machine gave lots of problems.
One of the issues was the following message which the machine logged hundreds if not thousands of times:

Oct 23 22:18:27 hostname fmd: SUNW-MSG-ID: SUNOS-8000-1L, TYPE: Defect,…

I recently installed Solaris 08/07 on two T2000 machines and was extremely surprised to find a serious bug with the fmd (Fault Management Daemon) service.
The service would, seemingly at random, fail to start on boot. It wouldn’t actually fail though- it just never finished starting. This caused numerous side effects including that prtdiag, fmdump,…