[geeks] opensolaris 2009.06 gripe

[velociraptor]

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Patrick Giagnocavo<patrick at zill.net> wrote:
> So OpenSolaris has their "nwam" or network auto-magic service.  It only
> turns on 1 ethernet interface, etc.  So if you don't like such magic,
> you might turn it off with svcadm disable nwam .
>
> If you disable it, manually configure interfaces, and then reboot
>
> - automatically made exports, NFS etc. don't come up
>
> - your manually configured /etc/hostname.e1000g0 or whatever interface
> don't come up anyways
>
> Why?
>
> Because it is not enough to disable nwam, you have to enable
> network/physical:default .  Why is it that network/physical doesn't just
> shadow nwam, so that if nwam is turned off it acts in a rational manner?

I'm guessing that SMF doesn't have that capability.  I suggest an RFE
or bug report. :-)

=Nadine=