Missing dladm command for Solaris 9

I am doing more frustrating Solaris work and stumbled across this little gem. A simple nawk script that produces the same output as the dladm show-dev command implemented in Solaris 10. Just paste it into a file, chmod it and there you go. kstat -p | nawk ‘/duplex/ || /speed/ { split($1,Array,":") ; Dev=Array[3]  }…

Reset ALOM password and reinstall Solaris 9 machine

So recently I was tasked with resurrecting a few old Sun machines from a closet. And of course once they were dug out, no one could remember the root or LOM passwords and the  since the machine was set to boot from the disk, I had no way in. But as they say, physical access…