did you do a reconfiguration boot?

reboot -- -r

On Mar 5, 2:43 am, "Raqueeb Hassan" <widean...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> OS: Solaris 8
> Hardware: Sun-Fire-V210
>
> Initially only one of it's 4 ethernet interfaces was configured for
> the network connectivity. Recently, all types of communication ends up
> freezing (ssh, ftp) and the ping replies are intermittent. The cable
> connection and the switch ports are okay.
>
> Windows_machine>ping 10.1.1.2 -t
>
> Pinging 10.1.1.2 with 32 bytes of data:
>
> Reply from 10.1.1.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255
> Request timed out.
> <snip>
> Request timed out.
> Reply from 10.1.1.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=255
> Request timed out.
>
> Then I wanted to change the interface settings from bge0 to bge1 after
> connecting the cable to corresponding ethernet port. I un-"plumb"ed
> bge0 before I come up with bge1.
>
> # cat /etc/inet/hosts
> 10.1.1.1 test1.test.org test1
> 10.1.1.2 test2.test.org test2
>
> # cat /etc/hostname.bge1
> test2.test.org
>
> # cat /etc/netmasks
> 10.1.1.0 255.255.0.0
>
> # cat /etc/defaultrouter
> 10.1.1.90
>
> I also edited the following file to update the host information as
> "test2" ...
>
> /etc/nodename
> /etc/net/ticlts/hosts
> /etc/net/ticots/hosts
> /etc/net/ticotsord/hosts
> /var/crash
>
> Just to check whether the settings are staying or not, I rebooted the
> whole system. The "ifconfig -a" doesn't return any IP address as
> configured. We can't communicate with the system unless we use this
> command:
>
> # ifconfig bge1 10.1.1.2 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 10.1.255.255
> plumb up
>
> What am I missing? I might plan for IP multipathing as it started from
> Sol 8.
>
> --
> Raqueeb Hassan
> Bangladesh