On Wed, 13 Apr 2022 at 12:43, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss
<openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote:
> > On 13. Apr 2022, at 22:32, s...@pandora.be <s...@telenet.be> wrote:
> > ----- Op 13 apr 2022 om 21:13 schreef Judah Richardson
> > judahrichard...@gmail.com:
> >> Speaking as an experimental user (read: OI is not my daily driver) who
> >> acknowledges OI inherits a lot of internal functionality from a
> >> server/workstation distro (openSolaris): all of this strikes me as
> >> anachronistically(?) complicated for something that should by default
> >> expect to get an IP address lease from any DHCP server on a network to
> >> which it's connected.
> > It's not really anachronistic. It's just that there is an enormous amount
> > of history behind the networking stack and OpenIndiana is the kind of
> > operating system distribution where users appreciate "old conventions" for
> > configuring the network.
> This is just bad excuse to have mess about how you configure your network.
I agree. I think we have a bug with the routeadm thing, but otherwise
I think people are trying too hard to consider the history when
thinking about it. Broadly, I would say:
- If you don't care beyond "plug in a cable", use NWAM.
That's what it's for. We can and should fix any
defects that prevent it working as effectively
automatic in simple environments, which would
include desktops and laptops and even single-
homed servers with simple DHCP addresses.
- If you want to be in more control, or to have
things be more static, disable NWAM. Use ipadm.
You will know when this is you, because your
needs will not be met by NWAM.
I wouldn't make it more complex than that.
Cheers.
--
Joshua M. Clulow
http://blog.sysmgr.org
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