Adding IP address and default gateway is rather straight forward as long as the interface is loaded. To see whether the interface is loaded, issue the command ifconfig –a
You should see something like the following…
bash-3.00# ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
rtls0: flags=1000842<BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0
ether 0:6:4f:47:76:1e
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