You can also use it to automatically configure a static IP address upon boot too.

Simply edit the file /etc/nwam/llp to your desired settings. For example:

e1000g0   static   192.168.0.45/24

Easy!

The /24 part of that string represents the netmask. in this case, it would be expressed as 255.255.255.0 in decimal notation.

Then create /etc/defaultrouter so that your machine can reach the outside world! For example…

192.168.0.1

…as this is the address of the router on my LAN
Finally, create the /etc/resolv.conf file, so that the OS knows where to look to resolve DNS names!

On my LAN , this would be:

nameserver   192.168.0.1

If your still having trouble resolving host names, you may need to check that the /etc/nsswitch.conf file reflects the fact that you want to look in both files and the DNS to resolve host names. The hosts and ipnodes entries should look like this:

hosts:        files dns
ipnodes:      files dns

Once all that is done you can simply restart the NWAM service:

pfexec svcadm restart nwam