> The NWAM feature that's currently in OpenSolaris > (dubbed "NWAM Phase > 0") was designed for laptops that visit networks > managed via DHCP. It > does a fairly good job of detecting wireless and > wired networks, and > automatically configuring interfaces via DHCP based > on a simple priority > heuristic.
Ah, so at some point, it was decided to support laptops at the expense of everything else. And what napkin was that scribbled down on? (rhetorical question) I go back to my earlier assertion that the installer should give people an option to set up networking properly (choice of words intentional). > If configuration needs to go beyond those > capabilities, then one needs > to revert to "manual mode" (to borrow the terminology > from the nwamd(1M) > man page) and use the traditional Solaris networking > configuration > methods. And to find this out, one needs to first build the MANPATH. Counter-intuitive, when one is just trying to get the bleeping OS working. > On its face, and IMO, this is acceptable, except that > people don't know > to go read nwamd(1M) when their network configuration > isn't being > applied. It's not necessarily a problem with > functionality, but rather > a problem of awareness of how the system works and > how one should > interact with it. I think the "NWAM Phase 1" project > will go a long way > toward raising that awareness, making the feature > more complete by > introducing a user interface, and handling a broader > set of > configurations. Of course, the NWAM team can > undoubtedly do a much > better job of talking about their project, so if you > have any input, I'd > suggest sending it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I reiterate; people should have a choice at time of install. Don't pull the rug out from under experienced admins. But that's perhaps less the fault of the nwam'ers than the people writing the new installer. (I guess, when I'm done, I'll have to find them and start my rant all over.) Thanks again, and let's hope my attempt to CC the nwam group works. Rainer Now, on to the Sun Ray software, and perhaps to find out why cde-login takes 5+ minutes to start. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
