Looks like that worked, thanks. I had "opensolaris" in the file due to
a couple howtos I briefly looked at online that indicate your hostname
should be in /etc/hostname.int

Example: http://blogs.sun.com/clayb/entry/sun_isms_for_opensolaris_2008

However, I realize these are not definitive sources for information,
hence the problem.

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 7:30 AM, James Carlson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Patrick O'Sullivan wrote:
>> e1000g0: flags=2000840<RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6> mtu 1500 index 2
>>         inet6 fe80::a00:27ff:fe90:fff2/10
>
> The interface is marked "down."  There might be something in the logs
> about that, particularly /var/svc/log/network-physical:default.log
> (since it seems you're using the non-nwam mechanism).
>
>> $ cat /etc/hostname6.e1000g0
>> opensolaris
>
> What is "opensolaris?"
>
>> Manually configuring:
>>
>> $ pfexec ifconfig e1000g0 inet6 plumb
>> $ pfexec ifconfig e1000g0 inet6 up
>
> You didn't force the address to be "opensolaris" when manually
> configuring.  Why are you forcing it when configuring at boot time?
>
> In other words, this should be sufficient to do the right thing:
>
> rm -f /etc/hostname6.e1000g0
> touch /etc/hostname6.e1000g0
>
> If you put text into that file, the text needs to be usable as
> ifconfig(1M) keywords.
>
> --
> James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <[email protected]>
>
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