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

[Jake]

You want nwamcfg and nwamadm. 

http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+nwam/CLI

Jake 

On Feb 4, 2011, at 5:42 AM, Basil Kurian <basilkurian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jonathan
> 
> 
> Thanks , but  I'm running OpenIndiana without display. So what i need is
> commandline methods.
> 
> I already configured  static networking with classic network configuration
> in solaris ( with the help of the link you gave)
> 
> Now i just want to know how networking can be configured in commandline
> using NWAM.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 4 February 2011 15:49, Jonathan Adams <t12nslookup at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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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>>>> Regards
>>>> 
>>>> Basil Kurian
>>>> <http://basilkurian.tk>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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> 
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