please advice - what the meaning of FAILED word from ifconfig commandDose its mean that network from NIC isn't stable until this moment ?Not clearly if ifconfig read network status each some mili seconds?, I mean if network is stable so ifconfig should return the FAILED status to OK ? yael ifconfig -a   lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1       inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000     e1000g0: flags=19000802<BROADCAST,MULTICAST,IPv4,NOFAILOVER,FAILED> mtu 0 index 2         inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0          groupname Mgmt_ipmp         ether 0:21:28:58:ff:6     e1000g1: flags=11000803<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,IPv4,FAILED> mtu 1500 index 3          inet 0.0.0.0 netmask ff000000 broadcast 0.255.255.255          groupname Mgmt_ipmp          ether 0:21:28:58:ff:7 
ifconfig + FAILED from ifconfig on solaris machines
networking;solaris;ethernet
man ifconfigsection called INTERFACE FLAGS FAILED     The  interface  has  failed.  New  addresses  cannot  be     created  on this interface. If this interface is part of     an IP network multipathing group, a failover will  occur     to another interface in the group, if possibleSometimes IPMP notices a problem with an interface and marks it as FAILED (this means that the test has failed, not that there is a hardware problem). This is because either be the link is down or the ping test failed (assuming you have test addresses).