Most of what you will find when searching the net for “solaris network interface alias” or “solaris interface alias” will be ways to create pseudo interfaces such as “hme0:1″ or “ce0:1″. This is a well documented feature under Solaris.
However, in my case, we were looking at ways to incorporate other systems in to our [...]

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Replacing a failed disk on any system can be a scary thought, but a lot of technology has been put together on the NetApp to make this as easy and painless as possible.
Without going in to all of the talk about what RAID levels to use and the use of DP (dual parity) disks, there [...]

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MythTV, if you follow the design principle, is best constructed with multiple machines. This separates your BackEnd (BE) server process from your FrontEnd (FE) server process and allows for the entire setup to be completely client/server based over a network.
Not sure of what I mean? Well, the idea is relatively simple:

Set up one [...]

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