[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Hipster becomes unreachable over network after a certain length of uptime

[Judah Richardson]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 12:14 PM Judah Richardson <judahrichardson at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 11:53 AM stes at PANDORA.BE <stes at telenet.be> wrote:
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>> There is a brief but good description at
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>> http://docs.openindiana.org/handbook/systems-administration/#configuring-networking
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> Took a cursory glance at this. I suspect NWAM is set to Automatic on my
> OI machine because MATE's system tray networking icon toast message says
> something like Setting profile: Automatic (I don't recall exactly) during
> initial startup.
>
I can confirm that mousing over the network tray icon in MATE results in a
popup that shows both the network profile and location are set to Automatic.

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> I'll check, though.
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>> in the section 'configuring networking' the OpenIndiana handbook
>> discusses the NWAM.
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>> Specifically :
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>> "Network Auto-Magic (NWAM) is a new approach to managing network
>> interfaces that was introduced with OpenSolaris. NWAM introduced network
>> profiles to be able to change network settings on the fly."
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>> However the question from John D Groenveld was what the output of
>> 'routeadm' was,
>> and whether the service route:default was enabled.
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>> So whether you have a requirement for enabling any routing daemons and if
>> not whether it helps to disable in.routed.
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>> Regards,
>> David Stes
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>> ----- Op 12 apr 2022 om 18:48 schreef Judah Richardson
>> judahrichardson at gmail.com:
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>> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 11:46 AM stes at PANDORA.BE <stes at telenet.be>
>> wrote:
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>> >> ----- Op 11 apr 2022 om 15:47 schreef John D Groenveld
>> groenveld at acm.org:
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>> >> > Does disabling in.routed with routeadm(8) prevent your default
>> >> > route from being disappeared?
>> >> > <URL:https://illumos.org/man/8/routeadm>
>> >>
>> >> I also wonder why this system that becomes unreachable after a a
>> certain
>> >> uptime,
>> >> runs 'in.routed'.   And indeed whether disabling in.routed can be done,
>> >> or is it (according to the original poster) a requirement for the setup
>> >> that route:default is enabled ?
>> >>
>> >> Another basic thing to verify is perhaps whether the server is running
>> >> nwam ?
>> >> Is svcs physical:default disabled and svcs physical:nwam enabled ?
>> >
>> > I've never heard of any of these. How do I check their status?
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> David Stes
>> >>
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