dladm is a new command with solaris 10 which can do many clever things (I think the general idea behind it is that ifconfig was becoming bloated with features and options that it was a good idea to break the link between the physical network provision and the logical usage) ie: dladm - physical link provision/configuration ifconfig - logical link configuration Assuming a server with two gigabit ethernet connections connected to two switches (for physical resillience):-