James Carlson wrote: > Bill Shannon writes: >> I disabled svc:/network/physical:nwam and enabled >> svc:/network/physical:default. I went to System > Administration > >> Network. It doesn't show *any* interfaces. > > I'd recommend contacting the Desktop community. They're the ones who > support the GUI bits. > > I can't say I use them much myself.
This was a problem 15 years ago when I left the OS group and I see it's still a problem today. You OS guys need to understand that most people experience desktop systems through the GUI. If the GUI for *your* feature doesn't work, it's the same as your feature not working. Let the flaming begin! >> I rebooted. No help. > > I suggest diagnosing the problem before going through repeated > reboots. The system is meant to be deterministic: if you've got a > problem now, you'll very likely still have that problem after a > reboot. Yes, most of the time that's true. But I learned long ago that it's better to reboot than to spend hours and hours trying to diagnose such problems. >> ifconfig -a looks fine, but there's no default route. > > What does "looks fine" mean? Please provide the command output. You know, UP, correct IP address, etc. It's working. Really. > What does "dladm show-link" say? $ dladm show-link LINK CLASS MTU STATE OVER iprb0 phys 1500 up -- Normal, right? >> Ok, I can do "route add default 192.168.1.1" and now I have a default route. > > Do this: > > # echo 192.168.1.1 > /etc/defaultrouter Yes, I forgot to mention that I knew how to do that too. >> But I can't lookup internet addresses, so I copy nsswitch.dns to >> nsswitch.conf and that works. > > You'll also want to set up /etc/resolv.conf. It had already been set up, probably by NWAM. >> But I'm putting all this together by hand, and I never had to do this on >> any of the other OpenSolaris machines I've installed. Why isn't the >> Network admin GUI working to allow me to configure the network? > > No idea; contact the desktop group. Will do. > As for the complexity, this is why we strongly recommend using DHCP > for configuration. That's what it's designed to do, and it makes > things much simpler. Kind of sucks for an NFS server to change its IP address on every reboot. Yes, I know, with sufficient cleverness and control over the DHCP server, I can get it to hand out the same IP address every time. I find it's actually easier to configure the server itself. And it's worked on all previous OpenSolaris releases I've used. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
