Ip address gone after evrey reboot.

Question

I have already installed my via NIC card in the Sun Solaris10. But now also facing a new funny problem.
The ip address that i have configured in the ethernet interface is gone after rebbot. i want to make it permanent.
1) My ethernet interface name is vfe0
2) The README.txt in the driver bundle of my NIC is suggesting me to edit the file /etc/hostname.vfe0 to fix the IP address.
3) My hostname is sun1 but i cant see any file name /etc/sun1.vfe0
4) if u use the commands
ifconfig vfe0 193.1.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
ifconfig vfe0 plumb
then i can ping my host. And even see the interface by the commandifconfig -a
But not after reboot.
Please help me to solve it.
Masud from Bangladesh

Answer 1

I have configured my ethernet interface successfully.
And now it is available after reboot.But a little problem with ip addres still.
Its showing an error message during boot. "interface vfe0 cannot be configured (IP_V4)"
My desired configuraton is....
Host name : sun1
ip : 196.1.1.1 255.255.255.0
Domain : mylan.org
FQDN : sun1.mylan.org
So that i have mentioned some important files output of my system below
1) /etc/hostname.vfe0
sun1
2) /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost loghost sun1
196.1.1.1 sun1
3) /etc/networks
loopback 127
arpanet 10 arpa # Historical
mylan 196.1.1 vfe
4) /etc/netmasks
196.1.1..0 255.255.255.0
5) /etc/inetd/ipnodes
::1 localhost loghost sun1
127.0.0.0 localhost loghost sun1
196.1.1.1 sun1
The output of the ifconfig
# ifconifg -a
lo0: flags=2001000849< UP, loopback,RUNNING, MULTICAST, IPV4,VIRTUAL >mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
vfe0: 100084<BROADCAST, RUNNING,MULTICAST>mtu 1500 index 2
inet mtu broadcast 127.255.255.255
ether 0:13:d3:9e:63:6
Now will u please help me how i can solve the situation??
My ip address is not set during boot .
Masud
Edited by: masud_bd on May 19, 2008 1:31 PM