[OpenIndiana-discuss] [b 147] Consensus on how to set up static IP

[Jon Tibble]

On 11/10/10 04:05 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Christopher Chan<christopher.chan at 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.
>
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> DerSaidin<dersaidin at 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)
>
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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