[OpenIndiana-discuss] Static IP problem

[Jonathan Adams]

My experience:

I had an Illumos box that after about 4 weeks just lost it's IP address
when it was set to be dynamic, no matter what I did ... My colleagues used
to just reboot it to fix the issue.

It wasn't the server, it wasn't (in this case) the network card misbehaving
(bge0), I believe that if I restarted the service it recovered.

I set it to a static IP (nwam enabled, ipadm create-addr) and the box has
remained stable ever since.

Jon


On 8 July 2014 14:53, Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com> wrote:

> Michelle Knight <michelle at msknight.com> writes:
>
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I've installed 151a8 text server but I'm having problems with my notes
> > to change to static IP and my searches of the web are turning up
> > nothing different ... but I'm obviously missing something.
> >
> > svcadm disable svc:/network/physical:nwam
> > svcadm enable svc:/network/physical:default
> > cp /etc/nsswitch.dns /etc/nsswitch.conf
> > ipadm create-addr -T static -a 192.168.0.2/24 bge0/v4
> > svcadm restart svc:/network/physical:default
> > route -p add default 192.168.0.1
> >
> > ...however bge0 is still showing as disabled.  (obviously the route
> > fails because it can't reach the network)
> >
> > Any ideas on what I've missed please?
>
> Just a bit of a different route to same goal:
>
> I sort of gave up on fighting with oi about static addressing a good
> while ago and do it this way:
>
> Many, if not all routers these days, have options to offer a dedicated
> address to a specific MAC address when a dhcp address in requested by
> a host with that MAC.
>
> That can be set on the router (in many cases) with the end result
> being your hosts' MAC always receives the same address even if it is
> issued via dhcp, and no other hosts will be offered that address.
>
> So, you have the benefit of a static address but not the headache.
>
>
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