Solaris

REBORG,...ifconfig ce0 + netmask + produces the following output.

ifconfig: + :bad address

I'm have a zero on /etc/hostname.ce0. Same as the other 10 V440s.
Netmask is correct. Same on all servers. 255.255.255.128
6 of these machines reboot and keep connectivity. 4 do not.

RTM,....startup scripts are owned by root. The systems are
already set to the ndd settings you suggested below.

Unbeliever,..../etc/hosts files are consistent with hostname.ce0
start up files. No,...these 4 machines have never worked after reboot.
All 4 are hard set to 100 full dup. So is the switch.

Running out of ideas here ...

Are all the machines at the same patch levels? If not check to see if there are any network specific patches missing on the machines that dont work.

As a hack you could create a new startup file

/etc/rc2.d/S99startnet

and put in it the commands you need to do manually once the system is up and running. This, however, is a rather horrid solution to something which should be fixable.

check for the /etc/netconfig file if it exists .

Confirm that you checked the startup files for rwx.

Post any errors being logged into your messages file during boot - if you don't have errors being logged, turn them on in syslog.conf.

Give more information on the system(s) relevant to the situation - such as, are the interfaces being used for clusters? Is there more than one interface on these servers?

RTM,....all 4 machines have 2 nics. There are no relevant errors logged. These machines are not clustered. They are individual DNS servers.

PPASS,....netconfig exist on all machines.

I tried creating a new startup script as Unbeliever suggested.
After rebooting,...there was still no access to network until I downed
interface ce1. Ce0 could ping and respond to pings.

Would like to thank everyone for your help on this issue.

Please be more informative - this sounds to me like you downed ce1 and ce0 started working - is that the case?

(And you still haven't stated if the start up scripts are set to rwx for owner)

RTM,....all the startup scripts have rwx permissions for root.
And yes,..when I downed ce1,...ce0 started working.