IP address configuration is now primarily handled by /usr/sbin/ipadm. Oracle is trying to consolidate all IP administration into this tool. Manual configuration above the basic physical interface is almost exclusively handled by ipadm, which controls both IP address assignments, as well as TCP and IP tunables, in a consistent and persistent fashion.

Solaris 11 has attempted to virtualize and automate a bundle of assorted sysadmin tasks, one of which is network configuration. It provides a pair of tools named netadm and netcfg, which follow rule sets for automatically and dynamically managing IP addresses. For now, please ignore the commands that we just mentioned. This section primarily addresses the manual configuration of IP addresses via ipadm.

If your host is currently under automatic network address control and you wish to manually set your network information, you will need to use netadm to change your host to manual network mode (which...