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Bug ID 6738223
Synopsis Can not share a single IP address
State 10-Fix Delivered (Fix available in build)
Category:Subcategory utility:filesystem
Keywords rtiq_reviewed
Responsible Engineer Thomas Haynes
Reported Against 5.10 , snv_01 , snv_97
Duplicate Of
Introduced In solaris_2.0
Commit to Fix snv_103
Fixed In snv_103
Release Fixed solaris_nevada(snv_103)
Related Bugs 6755757 , 6765144 , 6770161 , 6832569 , 6836889
Submit Date 18-August-2008
Last Update Date 6-October-2009
Description 
When you try to share a single host, access is denied because the netmask calculations
are off if the last octet is non-zero.

I blog about this here:
http://blogs.sun.com/tdh/entry/open_solaris_and_sharing_subnets
http://blogs.sun.com/tdh/entry/checking_a_host_entry_some

And we have customers asking about it here:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=66849&tstart=0
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=69423&tstart=0

Note that the last one is ZFS, so we might also have an issue in the zfs command.
Work Around 
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Comments 
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