[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Hipster becomes unreachable over network after a certain length of uptime

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2022, Judah Richardson wrote:
>>
> Perhaps I misunderstood the documentation, so here's the verbatim quote:
>
> "By default, the Solaris DHCP client does not supply its own host name,
> because the client expects the DHCP server to supply the host name. The
> Solaris DHCP server is configured to supply host names to DHCP clients by
> default. When you use the Solaris DHCP client and server together, these
> defaults work well. However, when you use the Solaris DHCP client with some
> third-party DHCP servers, the client might not receive a host name from the
> server. If the Solaris DHCP client does not receive a host name through
> DHCP, the client system looks at the /etc/nodename file for a name to use
> as the host name. If the file is empty, the host name is set to unknown."

The above only applies to how the client gets its name.  At one time I 
used a Solaris DHCP server (and it was great) but I think that server 
has been deprecated in Solaris and likely removed since then.  Most 
people will be using whatever DHCP server appears on their network, 
which is often a server in the IP gateway which connects to the 
Internet.

Regardless, it seems that the latest advisement is that the problem is 
that the per interface route is being removed and not that the 
interface IP is being removed.

Bob
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