Solaris Common Messages and Troubleshooting Guide

Cause

System fails to boot with error message: ifconfig: bad address. Upon coming up to multiuser ifconfig -a indicate:


le0: flags=863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0 
Once up, command

# ifconfig le0 inet hostname
succeeds, and all is well.