Darren, Thanks so much for the details. Now I get it.
Darren Kenny wrote: > Hi Lizhong, > > On 10/06/2009 03:58, Lizhong Li wrote: > >> Anurag, >> >> I found the ouptput of nwamadm was changed, I'm curious why it's 'offline*', >> what's the meaning of '*' ? Also should the original unplumbed link be >> plumbed >> when the nwamd starts ? It's not reasonable somewhat. >> >> earthscience:nwam# nwamadm list >> TYPE PROFILE STATE >> ncp Automatic online >> ncu:phys nge1 online >> ncu:ip nge1 offline* >> ncu:phys e1000g0 online >> ncu:ip e1000g0 offline* >> ncu:phys e1000g1 online >> ncu:ip e1000g1 offline* >> ncu:phys nge0 online >> ncu:ip nge0 online >> loc NoNet offline >> loc Automatic online >> loc Legacy offline >> >> > > When it's in the offline* state it mean that it hasn't been able to be brought > on line for some reason. That reason is an auxiliary state, which is able to > be > seen if you provide the "undocumented" (intentionally AFAIK) -x option. > > Since the change in the state machine, any i/f isn't deemed online until it > really is fully available - in the case you've got, it's quite likely that > it's > in the state "waiting for dhcp" or similar - I've certainly experienced a bug > where an address was though to be un-assigned by nwamd, yet there was one with > ifconfig, like you have.... > > You can find out more about the use of these new states at the updated docs > at: > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/nwam/p1spec/daemon/ > > As for whether i/f's are plumbed or not - it's my understanding that if the > phys > ncu isn't online (e.g. a lower prio group is active) then it won't be > plumbed - > this has caused some issues with some wifi drivers which assume that the i/f > should be plumbed before a wifi-connect will work - the nwam team consider > this > a bug in the driver, and were going to contact the driver team about this. > > HTH, > > Darren. > -- Thanks, Lizhong -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/nwam-dev/attachments/20090610/07f65698/attachment.html>
