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- The netmask on Solaris has to be set to a value that includes the default gateway (e.g., /24). Otherwise, Solaris will return an error when setting the default gateway (network unreachable).
- If Solaris should communicate with systems on the same subnet, it currently needs a static ARP entry for these systems (
arp -s <target-ip> <target-mac>). This is because the ARP requests sent by Solaris for the MAC addresses of these systems will not be answered by the Google metadata server and they will not be forwarded to the target system.
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