Hi,there,

I tried to file a bug on bug database of opensolaris.org but seems I
can't find it from the database after then. So I send it again to seek
for help. Thanks.

I installed a fresh SXDE 55b on my AMD64 box.
#uname -a
"SunOS gateway 5.11 snv_55b i86pc i386 i86pc"

When I boot it up for the first time, I noticed that the host name is
not what I want. And it used DHCP for IP address. So I changed the host
name, DNS server, and assigned a static IP address in
"Administration"->"Network". After that, my system went into a mess! The
service "svc:/network/physical:default" couldn't start. And no way to
use firefox or evolution. After spending sometime on it, I found that I
have to assign an IP address in file /etc/hostname.nge0 instead of a
real name. Then everything is fine. I found the script
"/lib/svc/share/net_include.sh" would execute a command "$ifcmds netmask
+ broadcast + up" in function "inet_process_hostname". In another word,
it calls a command "/sbin/ifconfig nge0 gateway netmask + boradcast +
up". Here the "gateway" is an invalid parameter for interface nge0,
should be its IP address. And it's got from /etc/hostname.nge0.

And then I found that even I already assigned to use DNS as the naming
service, the /etc/nsswitch.conf file is still exact the same
as /etc/nsswitch.file. Should be same as /etc/nsswitch.dns.

I even tried "sys-unconfig" to make the system work but failed.

I suppose it's a bug in network management module. May someone help to
fix it or explain the correct usage to me?

Thanks.
Calvin

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