On 11/10/10 04:05 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
Christopher Chan<[email protected]> writes:
On Tuesday, November 09, 2010 07:16 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
Can anyone point me to, or supply a brief step thru describing a known
to work method for setting up a static IP address.
One with complete steps that are current, as it appears from googling
around that there are several ways described and not all work on newer
opensolaris like b 134.
???
Is it really too hard to ask a question? A series of question marks is
pretty meaningless.
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Do we have a standard way to do this now?
I don't know about standard but for static ips, I use the 'old way'
and not nwam. Which is stuff ip-address into /etc/hostname.interface0,
svcadm disable network:nwam; svcadm enable network:physical and edit
/etc/resolv.conf and check for dns in /etc/nsswitch.conf for hosts.
Exactly what I hoped to avoid.
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DerSaidin<[email protected]> writes:
Hello,
See: http://blogs.sun.com/PlasticPixel/entry/nwam_static_ip_address_for
The other files you'll want to check (I'm unsure if these are essential)
when setting up a NIC are:
/etc/nsswitch.conf
/etc/defaultrouter
I've seen various comments about that /etc/nsswitch.conf
In my case it shows `files' first at every entry including `host'.
Apparently some where added by dhcp when that was used:
From /etc/nsswitch.conf on opensolaris b 134
[...]
#hosts: files # Commented out by DHCP
hosts: files dns # Added by DHCP
#ipnodes: files # Commented out by DHCP
ipnodes: files dns # Added by DHCP
[...]
About /etc/defaultrouter.... I do not have that file. I could of
course create it, but it seems to work without it.
find /etc/ -iname '*router*'<nada>
But the route is still set and shows up in `netstat -nr' So that one
(/etc/defaultrouter) may not be necessary (this is on opensolaris b
134)
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Thanks for the URL... yes, I found other input very similar and did that on an
opensolaris install successfully so hopefully it will also do the job
on openindiana b 147.... Haven't got to it yet.
However I will say that opensolaris b 134 does not have the same setup
at the network icon on upper left of desktop.
oi b 147 has a different and better dialog far as I saw. And it may
have actually done the job... it turned out that my virtual networking
was confused by having both vmware and vbox installed.... apparently
when I installed vbox (after vmware by a week or two) it took over the
vmware vmnet adaptors.... somewhat confusing... but ok now.
NWAM does static IP nicely, just not all settings are entirely accessible by
GUI (imo config files are simpler/nicer anyway).
Yes, give me files too.... but which are you referring to that are not
accessible? Do you mean /etc/defaultrouter and /etc/nsswitch.conf?
I haven't done it since b134 but there using the GUI to NWAM from the
status bar next to the clock worked. Should be fairly straight forward.
Think I may have needed one or two relogins to get the status bar to
show both correct info and green instead of errors but it worked.
Regards,
Jon
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