Thanks Carsten, That appears to work and survive reboots.
An obvious error with the ... ipadm create-if beg0 ...when the interface already exists and is up, but ... job done! Many thanks, Michelle. On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:05:00 +0200 real-men-dont-cl...@gmx.net wrote: > forget about ifconfig. It's outdated. In my experience it nowadays is > a never ending cause of trouble. > > That's what I found out as known to work: > > http://wiki.system-admin.info/doku.php?id=openindiana_tips_and_tricks#network > > Hope this may help > > > Carsten > > > -----Original message----- > From: Michelle Knight <miche...@msknight.com> > Sent: Thu 10-07-2014 07:55 > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Static IP problem > To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org; > > Incidentally, in case you're wondering, I'm rebuilding the box > > between tests ... to ensure that what I'm doing, works right. > > > > On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 07:43:56 +0200 > > "Udo Grabowski (IMK)" <udo.grabow...@kit.edu> wrote: > > > > > On 10/07/2014 07:34, Michelle Knight wrote: > > > > OK, this is what I'm doing now ... > > > > > > > > svcadm disable svc:/network/physical:nwam > > > > cp /etc/nsswitch.dns /etc/nsswitch.conf > > > > ifconfig bge0 plumb > > > > ifconfig bge0 192.168.0.25 netmask 255.255.255.0 up > > > > route -p add default 192.168.0.1 > > > > > > > > ...but it doesn't survive a reboot and I can't see anyone using > > > > a persistent option anywhere. > > > > > > You forgot to 'svcadm enable physical:default'. > > > Also, put the default router into /etc/defaultrouter, > > > and put the host names into /etc/hosts and add the > > > /etc/hostname.bge0 file with the corresponding host > > > name (or IP) inside the file. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > > > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > > > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss