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 _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
