[OpenIndiana-discuss] Problems with vboxnet0 interface

[Jonathan Adams]

I'm using nwam, so I have the vboxnet0 in /etc/nwam/llp and
/etc/nwam/ncp-User.conf

On 20 October 2011 15:10, Ron Parker <rdparker at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Jonathan Adams <t12nslookup at gmail.com> wrote:
>> did you set 'vboxnet0's IP address to 192.168.56.1/24 after you brought it up?
>>
>> On 18 October 2011 22:12, Ron Parker <rdparker at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> ...
>>> After a 'ipadm create-if vboxnet0', it shows up in ifconfig's output
>>> and I was able to assign it an IP, but it still cannot communicate
>>> with the clients. I expected that vboxnet0 would just show up and work
>>> as it had under Linux (unless there is some long-forgotten step I took
>>> to get it working there).
>
> Ok, I feel stupid now. Yes I had, but I had forgotten to actually
> bring up the interface.
>
> That said I found an online page about ipadm(1m) being the "new"
> ifconfig. So, I recreated everything using it:
>
>    ipadm create-if vboxnet0
>    ipadm create-addr -T static -a 192.168.56.1/24 vboxnet0/v4static
>
> and it works.
>
> However, I have to manually enable and bring the interface up after
> each boot. Is there a way to do this automatically? My
> /etc/ipadm/ipadm.conf looks like:
>
>    _ifname=vboxnet0;_family=2;
>    _ifname=vboxnet0;_family=26;
>    _ifname=vboxnet0;_aobjname=vboxnet0/v4static;_ipv4addr=192.168.52.1,;up=yes;
>    _ifname=vboxnet0;_aobjname=vboxnet0/v4static;prefixlen=24;
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron
>
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