Conclusion: do not use the GUI.
Edit /etc/sysconfig/network.
BTW, editing /etc/hostname.<interface_id> on Solaris doesn't do the
hostname either. It sets the interface IP address (via /etc/hosts).
Agreed. It was late last night. It sets the name of the interface. Nodename sets the host name.
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You inspired me to check some more.
There are only three NICs plugged into this subnet: A Cisco Pix, the Redhat 7.2 box and a Solaris 8 box.
I'm clueless about how arping works, but it elicits a response from the DMZ port on my CISCO Pix firewall (version 5.0). The Pix responds to arping for any IP address that is made available to the higher security interfaces via the global command. It even responds for IP addresses that have been opened, but never used.
The Pix does not respond to ping.
I never thought to run arping without first setting the IP address on the local NIC.
Once the local IP address is set, arping does not respond at all to that address.
Now I know that arping does not need a local IP address and if it has a local IP address, works across subnetworks. So I guess it ignores it. That's pretty kool (I think).
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