SUMMARY: Solaris 8 on x86 losing IP address

2007-12-24 18:56:00

Over a dozen people responded all pointing out that I needed a /etc/hostname.niccard, where niccard, on a i86 machine, is 'iprb0'. I neglected to mention that I had this already, but because I got so many emails all pointing to the same thing, I checked and I had 2 hostname.niccard files - I had inadvertently swapped the 'r' and 'b' in one of them, and that was the one it was trying to read from. So I just deleted that one and all went fine.

Thanks to:
Ahmed, Nabeel
James Musso
Sean Quaint
Evans, Tim
Martin Hepworth
John D Groenveld
Khalid, Fuad
Gary Jenson
James Ford
Sherman, Mark
Shaw, Marco
John Weekley
Michael Sullivan
Mike Salehi
Murat Bayrakci
Dave McFerren
Edward Carr
David B. Harrington
Martin D. Baldenegro

Original Message:
>I have a dual boot Dell Precision 220 with Solaris 8 which loses the IP address every time the machine is rebooted. During the initial install the installed NIC did not get configured, so I continued with no network settings.
>After installation, I manually set up the NIC with ifconfig, created a defaultrouter file, modified nsswitch.conf, resolv.conf, and hosts.
>Everything works fine, until I reboot, when an ifconfig -a then shows the device's IP address and netmask have been lost.
>Are there other files I need to create/modify? Is the ip address set by ifconfig saved in some file? Is there some rc.d script I should be looking at?
>Thanks,
>John
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