on Thu Jun 11 2009, Sebastien Roy 
<Sebastien.Roy-UdXhSnd/wVw-AT-public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Hello David,
>
> On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 08:37 -0400, David Abrahams wrote:
>> I have a couple of links I want to aggregate with a static IP address.
>> Should be simple, right?  Well, just getting a static IP address set up
>> turns out to be challenging at best.  I've done a lot of googling, and
>> found a *lot* of people having trouble with it, too.  The first
>> instructions I found that actually worked for me happen to use NWAM:
>> http://bopl.samharris.us/2008/06/solaris-nwam-and-static-ips/ I'd be
>> happy to use the "default" network service instead, but haven't been
>> able to get DNS name lookup to work.
>
> To get DNS to work without NWAM, populate your /etc/resolv.conf with
> appropriate values, then modify /etc/nsswitch.conf to have the following
> for the "hosts" and "ipnodes" lines:
>
> hosts:      files dns
> ipnodes:    files dns

I /think/ I tried that already, but I'll give it another shot.

>> Unfortunately, once I've created an aggregate interface, those NWAM
>> instructions no longer seem to work for me either.  The interface
>> continues to have an address of 0.0.0.0 according to ifconfig.
>> 
>> Can anyone help me through this?  
>
> Yes, NWAM (at least as it stands in the current release) doesn't work
> with link aggregations, VLANs, VNICs, or anything that isn't a physical
> Ethernet interface.  The solution is to switch back to
> network/physical:default and manually configure the services that you
> need.

That's really good to know, thanks.

> We can also help you over at
> [email protected] if you
> need additional networking configuration help.

I guess I'll have to unmangle that address from whatever gmane did to it
:-)

> Note that NWAM is an ongoing OpenSolaris project
> (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/nwam/), and you can contact the
> project team and other users who are following the project at
> [email protected].

Thanks.  I don't _think_ I have any real reason to want to use it, not
to mention that you say I'm ineligible to use it once I start
aggregating links, so I probably won't bother with that one.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com

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