[OpenIndiana-discuss] probable NWAM problems [was Re: REALTEK network card and pppoe config]

[Robin Axelsson]

On 2012-04-10 18:55, Northwoods wrote:
> Thank you Jason a lot, I shall read it.
>
> James Carlson<carlsonj at workingcode.com>  wrote:
>
>> Mountpeaks wrote:
>>> (ok, you are right James, I probed that data at different times)
>>> To connect, I use DSL modem, that is connected to my laptop with cable. On any linux distro I use "pppoe-setup" to configure my connection and it always works. I never use GNOME/KDE network managers.
>>> Here is a new log file from OpenIndiana. First, I checked my connection with my cable plugged in and modem turned on. Then I ran /usr/bin/pppoe call myisp, and checked everything again.
>>> Please see this log here: http://pastie.org/3758068
>> As I pointed out before, you have DHCP running on your rge0 interface,
>> and if you don't want to use DHCP, then you don't want that.
>>
>> For your configuration, using both at the same time is toxic.  (It's
>> perhaps worth finding out why you have a rogue DHCP server on your
>> network ... but maybe not ...)
>>
>>> My second OS is archlinux, and as said, I use pppoe-start to connect. Here are my logs from arch right after I connected.
>>> See: http://pastie.org/3758076
>> That system is clearly not configured to run DHCP on the Ethernet
>> interface, and is just using PPPoE.  The configuration is different, so
>> the results are different.
>>
>>> I can't see the problem, as I severy lack knowledge on network interfaces and how they are up on this level. I'm sorry. I hope my logs help. Maybe its OpenIndiana's network manager that somehow interferes with pppoe?
>> I don't know exactly how you have your system configured.
>>
>> At a guess, you're using NWAM.  If so, then you'll need to search around
>> for an expert in that.  I'm not one.  I've changed the subject line in
>> order to try to get someone's attention.
>>
>> On a system using NWAM, 'svc:/network/physical:nwam' is enabled, and
>> configuration is done using the NWAM configuration tools.  Again, not an
>> expert in this.  But there should be a way to disable rge0, which is
>> what you really need to do here.  (I've read through the NWAM
>> documentation, but, frankly, I don't have the patience left to
>> understand it.)

Disabling network interfaces with nwan is no rocket science. If you go 
to e.g. System->Administration->Network,
you can disable whatever interfaces you want in the GUI by editing 
"network profile". The process is straightforward
and I didn't read any documentation to get there. The change made the 
disabled interface disappear from ifconfig -a entirely.

>> On a system that uses the old-style configuration, that ':nwam' service
>> is not enabled, and 'svc:/network/physical:default' is instead enabled.
>> Configuration of that service depends on version, but usually uses
>> ipadm.  Something like 'ipadm delete-if rge0' should do it, if you were
>> using that type of configuration.

I must say that I'm experiencing issues with the network connection, at 
least in the physical host. There are intermittent hiccups in the 
connection when transferring data with CIFS. They are less frequent than 
before when I had both network interfaces enabled and therefore it has 
taken some time for me to discover it.

Also, after every 4-5 power cycles something gets messed up with the 
VirtualBox vboxflt driver which prevents virtual machines to start up, 
particularly on systems that use the e1000g driver which means any 
system that use Intel based NICs. Some people say that it most likely is 
the nwam that is the culprit of this nuisance.

I will consider changing to "network:physical" whenever I get the time 
to configure it.

>> You might try reading through some of the documentation:
>>
>> http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/4.2+Network+management
>>
>> -- 
>> James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W<carlsonj at workingcode.com>
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