I can tell that you are NOT one of our thousands of Field Engineers who regularly go to customer sites, with their Solaris laptop, and need to connect to the customers network which DOESN'T run a DHCP server. This laptop is normally configured as a Jumpstart server, a tftp server an ftp server, an nfs server, all to assist the Sun Engineer in doing his job.
For those engineers, NWAM simply doesn't fulfill their requirements. I'm very happy for you that your needs are perfectly met by NWAM. I also use NWAM almost exclusively as I don't find myself doing the stuff in paragraph 1 very much any more. (but when I do, I use inetmenu). That doesn't mean I can ignore those requirements, or pretend that they don't exist. As I said in previous e-mail, I will not be doing anything with the existing inetmenu and it will be used by people still running Solaris 10. I will update a Nevada inetmenu to use dladm and look into letting them co-exist better. i.e. typical nevada users will use NWAM by default, but have the abvility to invoke inetmenu when necessary. (which is what I do now). Alan DuBoff wrote: > On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Peter Memishian wrote: > >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/nwam-discuss/2007-July/004309.html > > Sorry for jumping in late, but I really don't see the need for most of > them, and NWAM has not fallen over for me at all. Aside from > occasionally having to restart in order to grab a dhcp, I think it works > pretty good. > > Most of what Mike listed are functions that are not applicable to > laptops, for the most part. Yes, if you're the obscure person trying to > use your laptop as a server, it can be useful I 'spose. > > Let's not forget that the landscape is changing quite a bit, and it > seems the model is changing for OpenSolaris and Sun both. Seems like a > good opportunity to embrace and extend, rather than continute to carry > baggage. > > With that said, I'm fine with you continuing to do as you see with > inetmenu, it is the doers that get things done. Maybe offer an IPS > package in the experimental repository (or what it is called when it is > created)??? More software is always good, we have a lot that is missing > on our platform. > > -- > > Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group -- Mike Ramchand Principal Engineer Systems Practice Sun Microsystems (UK) Tel: +44 125 2421091, Ext: (70)21091, Mob: +44 780 1179593 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3253 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/brussels-dev/attachments/20080430/f8c31df6/attachment.bin>
