I taught myself nwam for my laptop ... and I'm probably more unusual in that I run an OpenLDAP replica on my laptop and use LDAP for login (overridden automount to point to localhost for selected users, syncs automatically on seeing the "home" network) but I have to say that NWAM gets in the way if you just want to temporarily plumb up an interface on 192.168.0.99 or 192.168.1.99 to talk to some random router/print server and change the IP address.
On our servers, we have had a couple of OI boxes that would DHCP fine for a month, then one day just set the IP address to 0.0.0.0, reboot fixed it, setting static IP fixed it permanently. On our Static IP VPN boxes I have nwam turned off to make my life easier with the Solaris 10 guys in our office, ipadm and dladm are a lot easier to convert them to than teaching nwam. Jon On 27 February 2014 12:24, Stefan Müller-Wilken < stefan.mueller-wil...@acando.de> wrote: > I actually don't think that using NWAM is a matter of potential device > mobility. I started using NWAM all over the place and am generally quite > happy. Simple and scriptable, just works so far. Especially now that I have > understood how to add DNS to the equation. :-) > > Cheers > Stefan > > ________________________________________ > Von: Jonathan Adams [t12nsloo...@gmail.com] > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 27. Februar 2014 12:38 > An: Discussion list for OpenIndiana > Betreff: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nwam interfaces and aliases > > If you're not planning on moving this computer between several wireless > networks, you might be as well off using "physical:default" instead of > "physical:nwam" ... > > On my laptop, I run nwam, but on the servers that use wire connections I > use non-nwam, and generally if they're going to sit still for a long time, > I even make them static IP's. > > adding and removing virtual interfaces with nwam is a bit of a ball-ache, > adding them with ipadm/dladm is easy :) > > Jon > > > On 27 February 2014 11:32, jimkli...@cos.ru <jimkli...@cos.ru> wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > I am still a newb with nwam and ipadm, and recently failed to add an > alias > > ipv4 interface to an nwam-managed interface (needed to add an address in > a > > specific subnet to contact a factory-defaulted device, while the default > > address is from dhcp). > > > > The old "ifconfig addif" said it added the alias but nothing happened. > The > > dmesg logs revealed that nwam instantly killed the address it did not set > > up. > > > > Adding with ipadm also failed for some syntax reason. Maybe the examples > > from internet are obsolete or are for oracle solaris. > > > > Ultimately i created a vnic and ifconfig'ed that. But i'm still curious > if > > a "proper" CLI-friendly method exists. > > > > Thanks, Jim > > > > Typos courtesy of my Samsung Mobile > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > ________________________________ > Acando GmbH, Millerntorplatz 1, 20359 Hamburg, Germany | Geschäftsführer: > Guido Ahle | Amtsgericht Hamburg, HRB 76048 | Ust.Ident-Nr.:DE208833022 > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss