Netmask is not set properly in Solaris 10

Question

Hi,
I am not able to change my netmask for bge0 NIC. I've just run Oracle CRS installer and it changed my netmask. I didn't install CRS.
bash-3.00# ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
bge0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 10.160.19.49 netmask ff000000 broadcast 10.255.255.255
ether 0:14:4f:0:64:82
bge0:1: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 10.160.19.68 netmask fffffe00 broadcast 10.160.19.255
bge1: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 3
inet 10.10.10.1 netmask fffffe00 broadcast 10.10.11.255
ether 0:14:4f:0:64:83
bash-3.00# cat /etc/netmasks
# The netmasks file associates Internet Protocol (IP) address
# masks with IP network numbers.
# network-number netmask
# The term network-number refers to a number obtained from the Internet Network
# Information Center.
# Both the network-number and the netmasks are specified in
# "decimal dot" notation, e.g:
# 128.32.0.0 255.255.255.0
10.160.19.0 255.255.254.0
bash-3.00# cat /etc/hosts
# Internet host table
::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
10.160.19.49 sun3.testwaw.symantec.pl sun3
10.160.19.50 sun4.testwaw.symantec.pl sun4
10.160.19.66 sun3-vip
10.160.19.67 sun4-vip
10.10.10.1 sun3-priv
10.10.10.2 sun4-priv
bash-3.00# cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
# DNS service expects that an instance of svc:/network/dns/client be
# enabled and online.
passwd: files
group: files
# You must also set up the /etc/resolv.conf file for DNS name
# server lookup. See resolv.conf(4).
hosts: files dns
# Note that IPv4 addresses are searched for in all of the ipnodes databases
# before searching the hosts databases.
ipnodes: files
networks: files
protocols: files
rpc: files
ethers: files
netmasks: files
bootparams: files
publickey: files
# At present there isn't a 'files' backend for netgroup; the system will
# figure it out pretty quickly, and won't use netgroups at all.
netgroup: files
automount: files
aliases: files
services: files
printers: user files
auth_attr: files
prof_attr: files
project: files
tnrhtp: files
tnrhdb: files
Any idea?

Answer 1

Was there ever a solution to nagardd's original post? I am experiencing the same issue w/ the netmask not being set even though it's setup to do so in /etc/netmasks.
My /etc/netmasks
root@fsintntwrkrus1 cat /etc/netmasks
# The netmasks file associates Internet Protocol (IP) address
# masks with IP network numbers.
# network-number netmask
# The term network-number refers to a number obtained from the Internet Network
# Information Center.
# Both the network-number and the netmasks are specified in
# "decimal dot" notation, e.g:
# 128.32.0.0 255.255.255.0
172.25.40.0 255.255.255.0
*172.25.237.0 255.255.254.0*
My ifconfig after boot
root@fsintntwrkrus1 ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
ipge0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 172.25.40.10 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 172.25.40.255
ether 0:14:4f:22:21:20
ipge1: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 3
inet 172.25.237.241 netmask ffff0000 broadcast 172.25.0.0
ether 0:14:4f:22:21:21