Rainer Heilke writes: > > 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).
That'd be the OpenSolaris napkin. See: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/nwam/story-boards/ > 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.) I think you're faulting the wrong team. It's the group that put the SXDE and Indiana distributions together that decided to make NWAM the default. It wasn't integrated that way in Nevada. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
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