On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 07:33:31AM +0300, Cyril Plisko wrote: > > > > Yes, this is why the interim fix is not happening. ?The nwam daemon > > needs to be changed so that it explicitly ignores the vnics, and while > > Renee, > > I think ignoring interfaces should be an explicit decision made by human, > rather than based on their type. In the same scenario that discussed in > this thread there could be physical interface that is used exclusively > in the zone. In that case I may need to tell nwam to ignore it as well, > so it must be configurable. > > Can you please tell how is it handled in nwam phase 1 ?
The reason vnics are singled out by type and ignored is because the only thing nwam could do with them in phase 1 is treat them as ordinary physical links. This might be fine for some case; but it limits our ability to do more with them moving forward. However, phase 1 will give you far more flexibility in determining how the physical interfaces are managed. We introduce a profile that contains rules for configuring links and interfaces on a system, called the Network Configuration Profile (NCP). By default, the Automatic NCP will be active, which will follow the same policy as the current nwam: configure one active interface at a time, preferring wired over wireless. But you will also be able to create and enable your own NCP, which can implement a very different policy. There will be a GUI and CLI tools to manage these profiles. You can take a look at the phase 1 spec at http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nwam/p1spec/ The first few sections probably have the type of information you're looking for. -renee > > this is still a fairly obvious code change, the test impact becomes > > much higher. ?It's code that happens early in boot, and can be affected > > by first-boot-ater-install differences, which expands the test scenarios > > pretty significantly. > > > > (and a further confession: at the time the decision not to do the > > interim fix was made, we thought nwam phase 1 would go in sooner > > than build 127; but it's been delayed. ?We are making really good > > progress now, though, and the 127 target still looks very good.) > > > > -renee > > > > > > -- > Regards, > Cyril
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