Hi, not sure if this is the right place to post but here goes...
I have a USB Wireless Adapter using the rum0 driver. All I want to do is set a
perminent static IP for the onboard wired interface elxl0. I can plumb the
wired interface up fine on the fly, but when I try to save the static IP over a
reboot, I lose the IP address assigned to rum0 from my wireless router. See
below;
1)This ouput is before I set the static IP on elxl0. At this point I have an
assigned IP from my Wireless router and can connect to the internet using rum0
(my USB adapter)
ts97783 at GX150:~$ more /etc/release
OpenSolaris 2008.05 snv_86_rc3 X86
Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 26 April 2008
ts97783 at GX150:~$ ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232
index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
elxl0: flags=201004843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DHCP,IPv4,CoS> mtu 1500
index 2
inet 0.0.0.0 netmask ff000000
rum0: flags=201004843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DHCP,IPv4,CoS> mtu 1500
index 3
inet 192.168.0.3 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
lo0: flags=2002000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6,VIRTUAL> mtu 8252
index 1
inet6 ::1/128
2) I can manually plumb elxl0 with a static IP and ping the host connected to
the interface - I do get "invalid argument" but the IP is still accepted. At
this point I can STILL connect to the internet using rum0;
ts97783 at GX150:~# ifconfig elxl0 inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 127.0.0.255
ifconfig: SIOCSLIFBRDADDR: elxl0: Invalid argument
ts97783 at GX150:~# ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232
index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
elxl0: flags=201000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,CoS> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 192.168.1.1 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 0:6:5b:25:77:e
rum0: flags=201004843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DHCP,IPv4,CoS> mtu 1500
index 3
inet 192.168.0.3 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
ether 0:1e:8c:99:aa:3f
lo0: flags=2002000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6,VIRTUAL> mtu 8252
index 1
inet6 ::1/128
ts97783 at GX150:~# ping 192.168.1.2
192.168.1.2 is alive
3) Now, to save my static IP on elxl0 accross reboots, I am creating a
hostname.elxl0 in /etc and rebooting.
ts97783 at GX150:/# cd /etc
ts97783 at GX150:/etc# echo 192.168.1.1 > hostname.elxl0
ts97783 at GX150:/etc# more hostname.elxl0
192.168.1.1
ts97783 at GX150:/etc# init 6
4) After the reboot, the static IP is remembered but I lose the IP from my
router assigned to rum0. No more web browsing for me.
ts97783 at GX150:~# ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232
index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
elxl0: flags=201004843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DHCP,IPv4,CoS> mtu 1500
index 2
inet 192.168.1.1 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 0:6:5b:25:77:e
rum0: flags=201000802<BROADCAST,MULTICAST,IPv4,CoS> mtu 1500 index 3
inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0
ether 0:1e:8c:99:aa:3f
lo0: flags=2002000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6,VIRTUAL> mtu 8252
index 1
inet6 ::1/128
This problem is causing me sleepless nights.
As soon as I delete the hostname.elxl0 file from etc and reboot. I am given an
IP from my router and am back on the internet again using rum0
5) After a lot of messing around. I tried creating a hostname.rum0 file aswell
(as there had not previously been one). As you see, rum0 is now assigned dhcp
status and is the primary interface as reported by netstat. I forgot to
included the netstat output and I really cannot be bothered to create this
problem again to add it - if it helps someone diagnose this fault then I'll be
happy to do it. But trust me, rum0 is the primary dhcp interface in the below
output and elxl0 is not configered to use dhcp. Still no assigned IP from my
router though.
ts97783 at GX150:/# ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232
index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
elxl0: flags=201000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,CoS> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 192.168.1.1 netmask ff000000 broadcast 192.255.255.255
ether 0:6:5b:25:77:e
rum0: flags=201004803<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,DHCP,IPv4,CoS> mtu 1500 index 3
inet 0.0.0.0 netmask ff000000
ether 0:1e:8c:99:aa:3f
lo0: flags=2002000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6,VIRTUAL> mtu 8252
index 1
inet6 ::1/128
ts97783 at GX150:/#
I am stuck, all I want to do is assign a static IP address to elxl0 that
persists accross reboots.
I was thinking of reloading the rum driver just incase it's screwed, but it all
works when I remove the hostname.elxl0 entry????
Thanks in advance.
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