Solaris 11 - Basic of Network Administration

Especially network changes is one of the main concern in Solaris 11. Significant development in network side when we comparing with Solaris 10. Solaris 11 comes with profile-based network configurations which contains manual (Fixed Network configuration profile - NCP) and Automatic (reactive-Network Configuration profile - NCP) modes. Also introduced Network Auto-Magic (NWAM) features.

:~# netadm list
TYPE        PROFILE        STATE
ncp         Automatic      online
ncu:phys    net0           online
ncu:phys    net1           online
ncu:phys    net3           online
ncu:phys    net2           online
ncu:ip      net0           online
ncu:ip      net1           online
ncu:ip      net3           online
ncu:ip      net2           online
ncp         DefaultFixed   disabled
loc         DefaultFixed   offline
loc         Automatic      online
loc         NoNet          offline

Showing the phyiscal interface

root@unixrock:~# dladm show-phys
LINK              MEDIA                STATE      SPEED  DUPLEX    DEVICE
net0              Ethernet             up         1000   full      e1000g0
net1              Ethernet             up         1000   full      e1000g1
net3              Ethernet             up         1000   full      e1000g3
net2              Ethernet             up         1000   full      e1000g2
root@unixrock:~# 

Showing the Link status of the physical interface

root@unixrock:~# dladm show-link
LINK                CLASS     MTU    STATE    OVER
net0                phys      1500   up       --
net1                phys      1500   up       --
net3                phys      1500   up       --
net2                phys      1500   up       --
root@unixrock:~#

checking existing interface on the system

root@unixrock:~# ipadm show-if
IFNAME     CLASS    STATE    ACTIVE OVER
lo0        loopback ok       yes    --
net0       ip       ok       yes    --
net1       ip       ok       yes    --
net2       ip       ok       yes    --
net3       ip       ok       yes    --
root@unixrock:~#

checking MAC address and IP address

root@unixrock:~# ipadm show-addr
ADDROBJ           TYPE     STATE        ADDR
lo0/v4            static   ok           127.0.0.1/8
net0/v4           dhcp     ok           192.168.113.139/24
net1/v4           dhcp     ok           192.168.113.141/24
net2/v4           dhcp     ok           192.168.113.143/24
net3/v4           dhcp     ok           192.168.113.142/24
lo0/v6            static   ok           ::1/128
net0/v6           addrconf ok           fe80::20c:29ff:febf:ac5b/10
net1/v6           addrconf ok           fe80::20c:29ff:febf:ac65/10
net2/v6           addrconf ok           fe80::20c:29ff:febf:ac6f/10
net3/v6           addrconf ok           fe80::20c:29ff:febf:ac79/10
root@unixrock:~#

root@unixrock:~# dladm show-phys
LINK              MEDIA           STATE      SPEED  DUPLEX  DEVICE
net0              Ethernet       UNKNOWN      1000   full   e1000g0
net1              Ethernet       UNKNOWN      1000   full   e1000g1
net3              Ethernet       UNKNOWN      1000   full   e1000g3
net2              Ethernet       UNKNOWN      1000   full   e1000g2
root@unixrock:~#
root@unixrock:~# dladm show-link
LINK                CLASS     MTU    STATE    OVER
net0                phys      1500   UNKNOWN       --
net1                phys      1500   UNKNOWN       --
net3                phys      1500   UNKNOWN       --
net2                phys      1500   UNKNOWN       --
root@unixrock:~#
root@unixrock:~# ipadm show-if
IFNAME     CLASS    STATE    ACTIVE OVER
lo0        loopback ok       yes    --
root@unixrock:~#
root@unixrock:~# ipadm show-addr

Asssing IP Address to the net0 interface

root@unixrock:~# ipadm create-addr -T static -a 192.168.113.139/24 net0/v4test
root@unixrock:~#
root@unixrock:~# ipadm show-if
IFNAME     CLASS    STATE    ACTIVE OVER
lo0        loopback ok       yes    --
net0       ip       ok       yes    --
root@unixrock:~# ipadm show-addr
ADDROBJ           TYPE     STATE        ADDR
lo0/v4            static   ok           127.0.0.1/8)
net0/v4test       static   ok           192.168.113.139/24
lo0/v6            static   ok           ::1/128
root@unixrock:~#

NOTE : "T" - option can be used for three specify interface mode static, DHCP and addrconf (auto configured IPV6 address) Trying DHCP for another interface net1

root@unixrock:~#
root@unixrock:~# ipadm create-ip net1
root@unixrock:~# ipadm create-addr -T dhcp net1/v4test2
root@unixrock:~# ipadm show-if
IFNAME     CLASS    STATE    ACTIVE OVER
lo0        loopback ok       yes    --
net0       ip       ok       yes    --
net1       ip       ok       yes    --
root@unixrock:~# ipadm show-addr
ADDROBJ           TYPE     STATE        ADDR
lo0/v4            static   ok           127.0.0.1/8
net0/v4test       static   ok           192.168.113.139/24
net1/v4test2      dhcp     ok           192.168.113.141/24
lo0/v6            static   ok           ::1/128
root@unixrock:~#

If you want to change the IP, then we need to delete and recreate the interface with new IP. Let we change the IP address

root@unixrock:~# ipadm delete-ip net2
root@unixrock:~# ipadm create-ip net2
root@unixrock:~# ipadm create-addr -T static -a 192.168.113.140 net2/v4test1
root@unixrock:~# ipadm show-addr
ADDROBJ           TYPE     STATE        ADDR
lo0/v4            static   ok           127.0.0.1/8
net0/v4test       static   ok           192.168.113.139/24
net1/v4test2      dhcp     ok           192.168.113.141/24
net2/v4test1      static   ok           192.168.113.140/24
lo0/v6            static   ok           ::1/128
root@unixrock:~#