Want mplayer2 (the newer fork of mplayer) that uses ffmpeg goodness to play all the latest avi’s with funky codecs and mp4 hidef goodness. Some Openindiana contributors are building a lot of friendly packages in the oi-sfe repo. [plain] sudo pkg set-authority -O http://staticdev.uk.openindiana.org:10002 oi-sfe sudo pkg refresh –full sudo pkg install SFEmplayer2 SFEgccruntime [/plain] [ View Post… ]
mplayer2 (and other goodies) on OpenIndiana (possibly Solaris 11)
ipadm Script for Openindiana / Solaris 11 Ex
I love ipadm. It rocks. Much needed for Solaris and derivatives. I seem to keep forgetting the dam new ipadm commands tho. So I wrote this script to help me set up new Solaris machines and thought I would share. [bash] #!/usr/bin/bash INTERFACE=$1 ADDRESS=$2 GATEWAY=$3 V6AUTO=1 errorCheck() { if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "ERROR: [ View Post… ]
OpenSolaris / OpenIndiana IPF
After I spent hours thinking I have lost the plot, I finally read about how IPF is configured by default now. I am not sure what build this was changed, but now, by default IPF on OpenIndiana does not look @ /etc/ipf/ipf.conf for default IPv4 IPF Rules to load @ start. To make it look [ View Post… ]
IPMP + Zones CFG in OpenIndiana / OpenSolaris
IPMP in Solaris allows you to have redundancy with your network on mission critical servers. It is really excellent as it allows you to mix speed of NICs (e.g. a Ten Gigabit Ethernet with Gigabit Ethernet). Below will demonstrate the ‘passive’ IPMP configuration. Active mode allows you to check the ability to ping a defined [ View Post… ]