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

[Judah Richardson]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 2:03 PM Gary Mills <gary_mills at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 08:04:40PM +0200, stes at PANDORA.BE wrote:
>
> > The documentation
> >
> http://docs.openindiana.org/handbook/systems-administration/#configuring-networking
> > writes:
>
> > "While usually server and desktop installations tend to use default
> > network configurations, laptop users can leverage nwam network
> > configuations."
>
> That really means: "in an envionment where the network configuration
> changes frequently".
>
Speaking as an experimental user (read: OI is not my daily driver) who
acknowledges OI inherits a lot of internal functionality from a
server/workstation distro (openSolaris): all of this strikes me as
anachronistically(?) complicated for something that should by default
expect to get an IP address lease from any DHCP server on a network to
which it's connected.

Or, put more simply: it assumes a lot of network complexity that isn't
there for most (home) networks.

I'm not necessarily advocating for it to change since I don't have the time
to do it and clearly it seems to work for many people; just making an
observation. I can't think of any other OS I've used (Android, Linux,
Windows, (Free)BSD) for which maintaining a network connection isn't
anything more than connecting an Ethernet cable.

>
> > So that doc positions NWAM as a solution for 'laptop users'.
> > Opinions may differ ...
>
> NWAM actually works well in many situations.
>
>
> --
> -Gary Mills-            -refurb-                -Winnipeg, Manitoba,
> Canada-
>
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