[OpenIndiana-discuss] Some help with ipadm

[Gary Gendel]

Albert,

Yes, I still have the hostname.xxx files in /etc.  What is the 
appropriate replacement for this mechanism?

Gary

On 7/14/12 1:19 PM, Albert Lee wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Gary Gendel <gary at genashor.com> wrote:
>> I had things configured originally via ifconfig and then unplumbed the
>> interface and recreated it using ipadm but after a reboot, things went weird
>> on me.  I figure that it's some remnant left over from my original manual
>> configuration after disabling nwam years ago.
>>
>> I created two persistent interfaces using ipadm:
>> bge0/v4
>> bge0/v6
>>
>> what I ended up after reboot was:
>>
>> # ipadm show-addr
>> ADDROBJ           TYPE     STATE        ADDR
>> lo0/v4            static   ok           127.0.0.1/8
>> lo0/_a            static   ok           127.0.0.2/32
>> bge0/?            dhcp     ok           98.221.143.25/21
>> lo0/v6            static   ok           ::1/128
>> bge0/v4        dhcp     disabled     ?
>> bge0/v6           addrconf disabled     ::
>>
>> Why did it create bge0/? and why are the persistent addresses I created
>> disabled? Also, ipadm delete-addr bge0/v6 says that the object doesn't exist
>> if that helps.
>>
>> I've resorted to removing them manually from ipadm.conf, unplumbing the bge0
>> interface and then recreated them using ipadm again and I'm back to where I
>> should be:
>>
>> # ipadm show-addr
>> ADDROBJ           TYPE     STATE        ADDR
>> lo0/v4            static   ok           0.0.0.6/8
>> lo0/_a            static   ok           127.0.0.2/32
>> bge0/v4           dhcp     ok           98.221.143.25/21
>> lo0/v6            static   ok           ::1/128
>> bge0/v6           addrconf ok           fe80::209:3dff:fe13:3a3/10
>> bge0/v6           addrconf ok 2001:558:6026:8c:44f2:de61:c396:e2f8/128
>>
>> Any advice would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gary
>>
> Do you still have old hostname or dhcp files in /etc?
>
> -Albert
>
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