[OpenIndiana-discuss] Nwam interfaces and aliases

[Jonathan Adams]

I taught myself nwam for my laptop ... and I'm probably more unusual in
that I run an OpenLDAP replica on my laptop and use LDAP for login
(overridden automount to point to localhost for selected users, syncs
automatically on seeing the "home" network) but I have to say that NWAM
gets in the way if you just want to temporarily plumb up an interface on
192.168.0.99 or 192.168.1.99 to talk to some random router/print server and
change the IP address.

On our servers, we have had a couple of OI boxes that would DHCP fine for a
month, then one day just set the IP address to 0.0.0.0, reboot fixed it,
setting static IP fixed it permanently. On our Static IP VPN boxes I have
nwam turned off to make my life easier with the Solaris 10 guys in our
office, ipadm and dladm are a lot easier to convert them to than teaching
nwam.


Jon


On 27 February 2014 12:24, Stefan Müller-Wilken <
stefan.mueller-wilken at acando.de> wrote:

> I actually don't think that using NWAM is a matter of potential device
> mobility. I started using NWAM all over the place and am generally quite
> happy. Simple and scriptable, just works so far. Especially now that I have
> understood how to add DNS to the equation. :-)
>
> Cheers
>  Stefan
>
> ________________________________________
> Von: Jonathan Adams [t12nslookup at gmail.com]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 27. Februar 2014 12:38
> An: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
> Betreff: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Nwam interfaces and aliases
>
> 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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