I have ran a couple of different Solaris versions. The first was a Solaris Express Developer Edition snv_70b x86 and now I am running OpenSolaris 2008.05 snv_86a X86. The previous release would on a daily basis pop-up a message box about taking my network interface down and then taking it back up. I don't think Auto-Magic was active. With snv_86a, Auto-Magic is enabled and I get the message "Took interface nge0 down" but I don't get the back up message so I can't access anything via my network. I used ifconfig -a to verify that nge0 was not up. I did ifconfig nge0 up, and then ifconfig -a and it was up, but I still could not use firefox to access any sites. I did: svcadm disable svc:/network/physical:nwam svcadm enable svc:/network/physical:default And then I could get to my network again (firefox could find sites).
Is there a way to configure my system to avoid this? I guess if it has to take the interface down (I am not sure why it does this), I would like it to bring it back up. Thanks, -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
