[OpenIndiana-discuss] Need good beginner guide to network configuration in OpenIndiana/OpenSolaris with NWAM

[Jonathan Adams]

I don't know of any ... It changed a lot between 134 to 148, which
caused me grief because I have a local replica of an LDAP server and
use that for all naming requests ... and LDAP and NIS+ are now able to
be controlled via the nwam system ...

If I was on a stand-alone system I would still use
network/physical:default, but I'm on a laptop which moves between
sites (and connects over openVPN sometimes), so I struggled with and
got NWAM working for me.

If you right click on the "Network Status Notification Icon" and go to
"Network Preferences"

change "Show:" to "Network Profile"

click on "User" (if it is there) or create a new profile and click "Edit"

you now have the ability to specify all the connections that you want
to be enabled (if the cards aren't there click on the "Connections"
button at the top)

I have VirtualBox installed so my configuration has:

"Always enable these connections:"
"Wired (vboxnet0) Addresses: (v4) 192.168..."

and
"Then enable exactly one of these connections:"
"Wired (bge0) Addresses: (v4) DHCP ..."
"Wireless (iwh0) Addresses: (v4) DHCP..."

If you then click on "Show" at the top you should be able to modify
all the settings for the specific cards ordered by the profile then by
the interfaces.

If you click on "Connection Status" under "Show", click on
"Locations", click on "Automatic" and click on "Edit" you have the
ability to edit the name services that you need and can specify a
custom nsswitch.conf file (do check that the file has the correct name
by "OK"ing everything and then trying it again, for some reason it
went wrong sometimes and picked a random file from /etc

you can't seem to set LDAP as a name service for "NoNet" as a location
for some reason ... :)

I hope this helps any.

Jon

On 3 February 2011 17:16, Basil Kurian <basilkurian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan
>
> That document is a lot helpful. I 'm able to configure static networking on
> OpenIndiana . Thanks :)
>
> But in that method NWAM is disabled and older methods are used to configure
> networking. Is there any articles containing NWAM configuration examples ??
>
> On 3 February 2011 19:59, Basil Kurian <basilkurian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks let me try it .
>>
>>
>> On 3 February 2011 19:51, Jonathan Adams <t12nslookup at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> http://www.slideshare.net/networksguy/opensolaris-how-to-guides-opensolaris-network-administration
>>>
>>> On 3 February 2011 14:16, Basil Kurian <basilkurian at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > I 'm pretty new to Solaris environment. Currently I'm using dhcp in my
>>> > network configuration. I would like to set it to a static one. I 'm
>>> running
>>> > openIndiana without display. I find it difficult to configure networking
>>> > with NWAM. It will be nice if someone can give me some link to articles
>>> or
>>> > blogs about good configuration examples.
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Regards
>>> >
>>> > Basil Kurian
>>> > <http://basilkurian.tk>
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>>
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>>
>>
>
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>
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