[OpenIndiana-discuss] NWAM static IP bug?

[dswartz at druber.com]

After googling around last week, I concluded that the simplest way to give
my OI box a static IP was to do the trick of putting something like:

e1000g0 static 10.0.0.4/24

and it seemed to work.  I have to admit, I had no idea what the above was
doing under the covers, but it seemed to work.  Yesterday, I changed
firewalls, and this morning, I get up to see that all my VMs on my ESXi
host were off the air, as was the OI VM.  There was a message in the log
about e1000g0 being removed from the config (sorry for lack of specifics,
but the logfile is not available until this evening...)  I fairly quickly
discovered (after looking at dhcp lease table on the new firewall) that it
had 10.0.0.246!  Hmmmm.  So I converted that into a static DHCP lease, and
did 'svcadm restart nwam', and back up and running.  Unfortunately, I have
no idea why this happened - I foolishly assumed this "static IP" method
was really static, but I have a horrible feeling that it is really just
doing some kind of juju where nwam asks for a lease renewal using the
above IP (or whatever), and the firewall rejected it.  Any ideas?  Thanks!