I was able to change the subnetmask and gateway by editing the files etcsubnetmasks and etcdefaultrouter. How to add a physical interface after installation in solaris 10 305 only before you begin. Unlike ifconfig, changes made by dladm and ipadm are persistent across reboots. We have a sunfire v240 server with solaris 10, i need to change the subnetmask and gateway. Set gateway ip with ifconfig networking, server, and. Hi solaris experts, i would like to update an ip address permanently but believes ifconfig only does it on the fly and will revert back once the solaris 10 sun fire server is rebooted. How to add a physical interface after installation in.
On prior versions to solaris 10 when i want to addchange the ip address of an interface i will use this command. File 0002maketopologysubnetworkonsolarisifconfigroute. Set gateway ip with ifconfig i figured out how to set netmask and ip with ifconfig. The only thing ive been able to find on it so far is this. The physical interface to be configured must be present on the system. Setting up static ipadresses, solaris 10 the unix and. Server was rebooted but the problem is that when server shutdown or rebooted, network wont come up as i have to run this command. How to change ip address permanently on solaris 10. Here are some additional oracle solaris 11 resources. You can with the ip command, and given that ifconfig is in the process.
How to get started configuring your network in oracle. The gateway is a system routing parameter, not an interface parameter. Wednesday, january 09, 20 how to, others, solaris these are the steps you need to take to configure network on your solaris machine. If used by the superuser, the ifconfig command can configure all network interface parameters. The addresses shows are parameters of the ip configuration of the interface. How to configure a physical interface after system installation. I figured out how to set netmask and ip with ifconfig. This has a network card with a admtek an983 chipset. If you are using the solaris 10 305 release, use the procedure how to add a physical interface after installation in solaris 10 305 only before you begin. The network card drivers are not installed by default so i manually isntalled them from the follwoing link. It wouldnt make sense to show it in the interface configuration.