Configuring DHCP

There are two ways to configure DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) for ALOM:

• Use the setupsc script to set the netsc_dhcp variable.
• Use the setsc command to set the value of the netsc_dhcp variable to true (enable DHCP).

Note: It is a best practice to set the ALOM device name associated with the IP (Internet Protocol) address in name server maps (NIS or DNS) to be the name of the host server with -sc appended to it. For example, if your host server's name is bert, the ALOM device name is bert-sc.

If you use DHCP to control your network configuration, configure the DHCP server to assign a fixed IP address to ALOM.