gwr@dell6300gwr$ svcs -vx svc:/network/routing/ndp:default (in.ndpd IPv6 neighbour discovery daemon) State: maintenance since Thu Apr 16 10:14:16 2009 Reason: Start method failed repeatedly, last died on Killed (9). See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-KS See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M in.ndpd See: /var/svc/log/network-routing-ndp:default.log Impact: This service is not running. gwr@dell6300gwr$ routeadm Configuration Current Current Option Configuration System State --------------------------------------------------------------- IPv4 routing disabled disabled IPv6 routing disabled disabled IPv4 forwarding disabled disabled IPv6 forwarding disabled disabled Routing services "route:default ripng:default" Routing daemons: STATE FMRI disabled svc:/network/routing/legacy-routing:ipv4 disabled svc:/network/routing/legacy-routing:ipv6 maintenance svc:/network/routing/ndp:default disabled svc:/network/routing/rdisc:default disabled svc:/network/routing/ripng:default disabled svc:/network/routing/route:default Here's what I did to get it working: root@dell6300gwr# svcadm disable svc:/network/routing/ndp:default root@dell6300gwr# svcadm restart nwam (still no network...) root@dell6300gwr# svcs -vx svc:/network/physical:nwam (physical network interface autoconfiguration) State: maintenance since Thu Apr 16 10:20:53 2009 Reason: Method failed. See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-8Q See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M nwamd See: http://opensolaris.org/os/projects/nwam/ See: http://opensolaris.org/os/projects/nwam/phase0/ See: /var/svc/log/network-physical:nwam.log Impact: This service is not running. Here's the end of the nwam log: [ Apr 16 10:10:41 Enabled. ] [ Apr 16 10:10:45 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/net-nwam start"). ] svcprop: Couldn't find property group `system' for instance `svc:/system/svc/restarter:default'. [ Apr 16 10:10:45 Method "start" exited with status 0. ] ifconfig: vboxnet0: interface not in appropriate state for command [ Apr 16 10:11:14 Rereading configuration. ] [ Apr 16 10:11:14 Executing refresh method ("/lib/svc/method/net-nwam refresh"). ] [ Apr 16 10:11:14 Method "refresh" exited with status 0. ] [ Apr 16 10:19:52 Stopping because service restarting. ] [ Apr 16 10:19:52 Executing stop method ("/lib/svc/method/net-nwam stop"). ] [ Apr 16 10:19:52 Method "stop" exited with status 0. ] [ Apr 16 10:20:53 Method or service exit timed out. Killing contract 11. ] OK, trying to fix nwam: root@dell6300gwr# svcadm clear svc:/network/physical:nwam Yea! I have a network again. Now, I wish I didn't have to go through this after every reboot. Anyone have any ideas how to fix this permanently? I'll hazard a guess that VirtualBox 2.2.0 is involved. (See the nwam complaint about the "vboxnet0")