I just installed nwam1-build-RC1 on my Toshiba laptop running latest open solaris development build. I have not installed the GUI yet. Here are come comments.
*) The bfu went fine and the system rebooted fine *) The e1000g interface was plumbed correctly *) nameservice that was working previously had stopped working. So I decided to go back to the default. After issuing svcadm to switch back I thought everything would go back to the old way but it turns out there was no plumbed interface in the system. Moreover /etc/hostname.<interface> and /etc/dhcp* files did not exist. So now even If I reboot I can not get back to my original configuration *) I wanted to reboot and see what happens, but reboot failed as I did not have the right privileges. So it turns out that I was able to change network configuration of a system without any special privileges. Is that a design decision ?. I believe MAC only allows authorized users to change configuration and asks for passwd even if the user is logged in with a uid with privileges. I think it is a pain to keep providing the passwd but I can also see the security aspect. *) So I rebooted the system. The system obviously came up without any networking. I tried to enable nwam without disabling network/physical:default and the framework correctly put it in maintenance mode. disabling network/physical:default and bringing in network/physical:nwam correctly configured my e1000g interface and guess what name service was working !!!!!!! *) I rebooted my laptop again. It came up with nwam enabled but no interface plumbed. All my manual attempts to get an IP so I could transfer the log file failed. So I disabled nwam, create /etc/hostname.e1000g0 and /etc/dhcp.e1000g0, enable network/physical:default and rebooted. The system came up fine. I transferred the log file (attached). *) Now again I disabled network/physical:default and enabled network/physical:nwam and rebooted .. I am in the same situation with a system with no plumbed/configured/working interface. This time however /etc/hostname.e1000g0 and /etc/dhcp.e1000g0 are still there. If someone wants to look at the laptop in its current state come by my office. Rao. P.S. I am not on the nwam-dev alias so please copy me on any replies/questions. -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: network-physical:nwam.log URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/nwam-dev/attachments/20091007/e1e2373d/attachment.ksh>
