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

[stes@PANDORA.BE]

----- Op 13 apr 2022 om 6:32 schreef Judah Richardson judahrichardson at gmail.com:

> 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.


As you can read at "Troubleshooting NWAM" there is an option of at least two models,

svcs physical:default
or
svcs physical:nwam

The Troubleshooting NWAM warns that in some cases after a while Automatic could change to NoNet.

http://docs.openindiana.org/handbook/systems-administration/#configuring-networking

You can also check with "svcs -a | grep physical".

In addition there is a log file : /var/sadm/system/logs/install_log

The install_log of the OS records some of the answers that you typed while you installed the OS.

You made some choices during the install, and for example there can be a line in install_log :

network_type.py:174 Configuring NIC as: automatic

or 

network_type.py;174 Configuring NIC as: manual

This depends on the answers you enter for the install screens.

obviously there are some many different scenario's and perhaps you entered some incorrect choices.

You could check the /var/sadm/system/logs/install_log to see whether there is a hint in there about how this perhaps accidentally happened.

Regards,
David Stes