On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Ananth Shrinivas <Ananth.Shrinivas at sun.com>
wrote:

> Hey Manish,
>
> What does
>
> $ cat /etc/nwam/llp

-bash-3.2$ cat /etc/nwam/llp
wpi0    dhcp
bcme0   dhcp


>
>
> Say ? This file has the ordered list of network interfaces managed by
> NWAM.
> If there ain't no bcme0 here, NWAM won't manage it. Or if wpi0 comes
> above bcme0, it gets higher priority.

But why? Should ethernet not get higher priority over wireless?
That is the way it works in both linux and windows.

>
>
> Ananth
>
> Manish Chakravarty wrote:
> >
> > Hi BOSUG,
> >
> > Please have a look at this:
> >
> > -bash-3.2$ /sbin/ifconfig -a
> >
> > lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu
> > 8232 index 1
> >
> > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
> >
> > bcme0: flags=1000842<BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 4
> >
> > inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0
> >
> > wpi0: flags=201004843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DHCP,IPv4,CoS>
> > mtu 1500 index 5
> >
> > inet 10.1.1.197 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 10.1.1.255
> >
> > lo0: flags=2002000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6,VIRTUAL> mtu
> > 8252 index 1
> >
> > inet6 ::1/128
> >
> > In short, nwam does not give me an ip on my ethernet port. Wireless
> > however works pretty well.
> >
> > I have tried disabling/enabling nwam repeatedly with
> >
> > svcadm disable svc:/network/physical:nwam
> >
> > svcadm enable svc:/network/physical:nwam
> >
> > This does not seem to change anything
> >
> > At booting time, I do see a kernel message saying " 100 Mbps link up
> > Full Duplex" so there is no problem with the network/cabling.
> >
> > So nwam not be shifting to the Ethernet interface automatically (when
> > it is plugged in) ? Is that not the expected behavior? Or am I doing
> > something wrong here?
> >
> > I am running SXDE 1/08
> >
> > Manish
> >
>
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Manish Chakravarty
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