Let's try this one more time without the quoted material. The ethernet address is your problem. It is reversed, a known problem with nge.
Change contents of /etc/hostname.nge0 to: 216.58.53.222 ether 0:19:21:db:3c:5 Fix /etc/inet/hosts to keep sendmail from complaining: 216.58.53.222 immanuel.cia.com immanuel loghost # svcadm restart network/physical:default -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
