[OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot get static IP network setup to work

[Dmitry G. Kozhinov]

That is, change your tambourine dance style :)
There is also modern fashioned way via GUI.

On 28.01.2011 22:00, Matt Wilby wrote:
> Rather than using ipadm, you can also do it the old fashioned way by creating /etc/hostname.<interface>  and inserting the required hostname from /etc/hosts.
>
> Where hostname can be something like bge0, e1000g0, eri0, hme0 etc.
>
> Matt
>
>
> On 28/01/2011 16:31, Deano wrote:
>
>> My notes on static ip (not using NWAM) under OI from the default DHCP
>> --------
>> Update /etc/resolv.conf WITH DNS
>> /etc/nsswitch.dns /etc/nsswitch.conf
>> Update /etc/defaultrouter with GATEWAY
>> route -p add default GATEWAY
>> Update /etc/hosts
>> svcadm disable network/physical:nwam
>> svcadm enable network/physical:default
>> ipadm create-addr -T static -a HOSTNAME/24 LINK_NAME
>>
>> HTH,
>> Deano
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Daniel Kvasnička [mailto:daniel.kvasnicka.jr at gmail.com]
>> Sent: 28 January 2011 16:13
>> To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
>> Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot get static IP network setup to work
>>
>> Hi people,
>>
>>
>> I'm trying to setup OpenIndiana b148 to use static IPv4 address and manually
>> set up DNS servers. And I can't even ping my gateway.
>> The problem is that the only acces to the machine I have is through VNC to
>> the QEMU instance it runs in.
>> Here is the link to screenshots showing what I've done with nwamcfg so far:
>> http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/1967301/1/oi?h=bfc6e1
>>
>>
>> I've also:
>> - checked /etc/resolv.conf for nameserver entries
>> - ensured "dns" is entered in /etc/nsswitch.conf in appropriate places
>> - entered appropriate line in /etc/nwam/llp (e1000g0 static
>> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/24)
>> - checked that my gateway is in /etc/defaultrouter
>> - tried to set 255.255.255.0 as mask using ifconfig, because ifconfig -a
>> showed the mask is set to ff000000
>>
>>
>> What the hell am I doing wrong? :) Can the problem be somewhere outside the
>> system? As I've said. It's a virtual instance running in a VM and I have no
>> way to check the VM settings myself.
>>
>>
>> Dan
>>
>
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