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e.g.

# dladm show-link

LINK     CLASS   MTU    STATE    OVER
net0     phys    1500   up       ---
net1     phys    1500   unknown  ---

create the IP interface

# ipadm create-ip net1

e.g. assigning static IP to net1

# ipadm create-addr -T static -a 192.168.9.100/24 net1

e.g. assigning dynamic IP to net1

# ipadm create-addr -T dhcp -h dhcp-client-hostname net1

 

e.g. to delete or deassign

# ipadm delete-addr net2/v4

# ipadm delete-ip net2