[OpenIndiana-discuss] Nwam interfaces and aliases

[Jonathan Adams]

If you're not planning on moving this computer between several wireless
networks, you might be as well off using "physical:default" instead of
"physical:nwam" ...

On my laptop, I run nwam, but on the servers that use wire connections I
use non-nwam, and generally if they're going to sit still for a long time,
I even make them static IP's.

adding and removing virtual interfaces with nwam is a bit of a ball-ache,
adding them with ipadm/dladm is easy :)

Jon


On 27 February 2014 11:32, jimklimov at cos.ru <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am still a newb with nwam and ipadm, and recently failed to add an alias
> ipv4 interface to an nwam-managed interface (needed to add an address in a
> specific subnet to contact a factory-defaulted device, while the default
> address is from dhcp).
>
> The old "ifconfig addif" said it added the alias but nothing happened. The
> dmesg logs revealed that nwam instantly killed the address it did not set
> up.
>
> Adding with ipadm also failed for some syntax reason. Maybe the examples
> from internet are obsolete or are for oracle solaris.
>
> Ultimately i created a vnic and ifconfig'ed that. But i'm still curious if
> a "proper" CLI-friendly method exists.
>
> Thanks, Jim
>
> Typos courtesy of my Samsung Mobile
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