documentation fo In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Approved: enum4rat2
Hi Hartz - Thanks for reviewing the NWAM doc and responding. I'm going to snip down through your email to respond to some of your thoughts. Hartz: It would seem to me that the document needs to explain the relationship between command-line utilities and NWAM. Steff replies: My document is part of a larger OpenSolaris System Administrations Guide, targeted to single users who are most likely familiar with Windows, MAC, or possibly LINUX or Solaris as a user. The information this book contains is the "beginner system administration" information, to get people going. For OpenSolaris 2008.11, the Networking section will contain a full set of tasks for working the NWAM GUI. My doc that I sent out for review had about 75 percent of them. I've since added some more tasks and information, much of which covers the items that you requested. Additionally, this Systems Administration Guide has a section for Manually Configuring the Network Interfaces and a Network Debugging section. Neither section describes in technical detail the difference between the NWAM UI and the nwam command line utilities. If you need technical details, I suggest you check out the man pages for nwam(1m) as soon as OpenSolaris 2008.11 is available. Hartz continues: For example whether to use dladm or wificonfig or something else, and whether this is properly understood/integrated with Nwam, or otherwise if the use of these utilities requires on to first disable NWAM. Steff reponds: I believe that you do have to disable NWAM to use the dladm wifi subcommands. I don't know about wificonfig. In OpenSolaris 2008.11, you can disable nwam through the NWAM UI. Then you continue configuration through the command line. To bring NWAM up again, you can use the NWAM UI's Connection Properties Pop Up or issue the proper svc ..enable command, as documented in "How to Manually Configure the Network." Hartz continues: I just wish the Network Management could setup/configure IPMP and VPN connections, "static" configuration profiles and a list of blacklisted networks. Steff continues: This is in the planning but not available yet. I think they are targeting a release with these features in at some point in 2009. Hartz continues: In fact the Gnome Network management tool should be dropped and a new utility developed which allows you to select amongst a list of custom defined "profiles", with a "default" profile which provides "automatic network configuration". Custom profiles should include what interface to use, Static IP settings, static name resolution settings, and whether to establish a VPN connection. The "Interface" field should allow you to select an IPMP/dladm aggr or trunk, or a physical interface, or dial-up interface via either Serial line (including 3G/hsdpa devices) or via PPPoE devices. In addition the Profile should allow you to turn specific services on/off (I may want my FTP server to run while on my home network but not when at an internet cafe or when connected via my cellphone. Steff continues: I can't respond on a lot of this, being as I'm not an NWAM engineer. The new NWAM release in OpenSolaris 2008.11 doesn't have these features. Subsequent releases of NWAM probably will have some of the features. Maybe some of the NWAM engineers can reply, also. BTW, the OpenSolaris 2008.11 System Administration Guide will be published as a Wiki on wikis.sun.com. Yes, this means that you can register and edit the text. I suspect that you will see an announcement in this forum as soon as the book is available for your modifications, additions, and the like. - Steff -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
