Christopher Chan <christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk> 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. [...] >> 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. ------- --------- ---=--- --------- -------- DerSaidin <dersai...@gmail.com> 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) ------- --------- ---=--- --------- -------- 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? _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss