Hi Michael, How does this "beat" on NWAM? There is no reason that whatever is done here - and you've look at the tool I'm proposing for network admin (from GNOME System Tools) - it's very simple. It can work with any underlying architecture and the backend is in perl so there is absolutely no reason that it couldn't be work with whatever the final NWAM architecture is - assuming you will be providing CLI utilities. Ubuntu is a very popular Linux distro an the Network Admin tool (the same as what I'm looking at) does what most of these users want on that platform.
If course, on SuSE and RedHat there is a tool called Network Manager that is also very nice, and this definately would step on NWAM's toes given that, as the name implies, it "manages" the network and would overlap with what NWAM is doing in that regard. But that's not something I've confirmed as a possible project just yet - in fact if there's anything useful we could do in this space it would be to provide a UI similar to that which Network Manager provides in the form of the panel applet. Yes, NWAM will be capable of A LOT more than the tools I'm looking at - but for the majority of people outside of the sys-admin space they will only want to be able to set the parameters for the wired and wireless network and leave it at that. When NWAM decides on it's configuration mechanism I would expect the GST tool to move to using that to store it's data, in the meantime it will store it's configuration using the usual files in /etc/ like /etc/hostname.<if> or /etc/dhcp.<if>... AFAIK, there has been no decision on how NWAM will present it's configuration to the user yet using a GUI - this project can provide an initial UI until something more complete is ready. Again, one of my aims is that these JDS/GNOME Single System Admin tools would be usable on Solaris 10 as well where NWAM most likely will not be delivered due to changes network configuration infrastructure that you're proposing. Thanks, Darren. Michael Hunter wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:09:17 +0200 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> Thanks, Darren. You have seconds. I'll contact you offline to get you set >>> up. >> >> I've not heard any argment why this is different from >> visual panels and I would consider this to still be in the >> discussing phase. >> >> Two people mentioned visual panels and there was no answer. > > I agree with Casper. In addition to visual panels this beats with NWAM > (Network Auto-Magic). > > mph > >> Casper >> _______________________________________________ >> opensolaris-discuss mailing list >> opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
