This is for the Solaris programmers?

I was having an issue with a NIC subnet mask on a Sunfire V220. The computer acts as a node for a TETRA radio system. We’ve two nodes, one on the 172.16.4.0 network and the other on 172.16.5.0, in a static IP, non-routed network. Each node has it's own set of peripherals that need to be kept logically separate, but the nodes have to talk to each other. The 172.16.4 is the primary node, and 172.16.5 is the secondary node. The secondary node gets shut down almost daily, and when it reboots, eri0 (172.16.5.0) comes up with as a class “C”. I’ve to switch it over to a “B” each time using ifconfig. To fix this, I VI'ed etc/netmasks and changed it to 255.255.0.0. Will this permanently cause it to boot as a class “B”, or will I need to do something else? I also wanted to make sure that I didn't cause any other problems on down the line. As you might have guessed, I don't normally work with Solaris, but this is system that I'm now responsible for, and I'm trying to get it to work properly.

should really ask the experts on Solaris. There are

many forums for Solaris, but the specific “Solaris Network”

forum is at:

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.js…