Hi!
Renee Danson wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:00:27PM -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 17:38 +0200, Gilles Gravier wrote:
>>
>>> Dave Miner wrote:
>>>
>>>> No, because the dependency graph for milestone/network requires one of
>>>> the instances of network/physical to be online, and milestone/network
>>>> in turn has many dependents. Enable either network/physical:nwam or
>>>> network/physical:default (the latter is effectively a no-op if there
>>>> are no /etc/hostname.* files).
>>>>
>>> Yes, I figured as much.
>>>
>>> But this means that you can't run open solaris with networking turned
>>> off or (through some strange occurence) disabled. That's a very bad
>>> single point of failure.
>>>
>> Perhaps NWAM Phase 1 addresses this by allowing a profile with no
>> network interfaces...
>>
>
> That's an interesting idea. It's not something we explicitly set out
> to make possible, but I think you probably could do it. You would need
> to make an NCP (network configuration profile) with all the components
> (links and interfaces) having manual activation, and disable all of them.
>
I think it's important to support configurations where user (for reasons
that may be their own) want to completely remove networking.
Furthermore, just turning off one service that apparently isn't directly
linked to GDM should not block GDM from running... at least NOT without
some clear warning of what is happening or about to happen.
Gilles.
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