OpenSolaris

1. Project: Network Auto-Magic
   1. Blogs
   2. Discussions
   3. Leaders
   4. Story Boards
   5. Requirements
   6. Architecture
   7. Design
   8. Phase 1 Spec
      1. Overview & Component Interaction
      2. NCPs, NCUs
      3. NWAM Location Specification
      4. Repository
      5. Data Structures & API
      6. User Interfaces
         1. Command Line Interface
            1. nwamcfg(1M)
      7. Daemon
      8. SMF Network Services
      9. Privileges and Authorizations
   9. Phase 1 GUI Design
      1. User Tasks for NWAM Status Notification
      2. User Tasks for NWAM Configuration
      3. GUI Spec
   10. Prototype
       1. DL_NOTE_LINK_{UP,DOWN}
   11. Phase 0
       1. nwamd(1M)
       2. NWAM Phase 0 Troubleshooting
   12. GUI Research & Futures
       1. User Scenarios
          1. Laptop Setup
          2. Server Setup
          3. Laptop (CLI)
          4. Picking by Pinging
       2. State of the Art
          1. Fedora Core 5
          2. IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad
          3. Linksys Router
          4. MacOS X 10.4
             1. System Preferences
             2. Internet Connect
             3. Network Utility
             4. Network Diagnostics
             5. Network Setup Assistant
             6. Menus
             7. Other Applications
          5. Solaris Express
          6. Ubuntu 5.10
          7. Windows Vista
          8. Windows XP
             1. Network Connections
             2. Local Area Connection
             3. 1394 Connection
             4. Wireless Connection
             5. Bridge Connection
             6. Other Details
       3. UI Sketches/Prototypes
          1. NWAM Configuration Prototype
          2. Sketch of Settings Management
          3. Sketch: Enabling links conditionally
          4. Sketch: Tunnel Creation
          5. Proposal: IPv6 Dialogs
          6. Sketch: Environment Configuration
       4. UI Spec - Phase 2
       5. Terminology Study: Location vs. Environment
   13. Service Discovery
       1. Applications
       2. nsswitch.dns
       3. mdnsd(1M)
   14. Glossary
   15. Files

OpenSolaris Project: Network Auto-Magic

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Installation and Packaging
Networking
OS/Net (ON)
Security

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About Network Auto-Magic, aka NWAM

Network Auto-Magic is a project to simplify and automate network configuration on Solaris. There are currently two components: Service Discovery, which incorporates Multicast DNS into Solaris, and Network Profiles, which allow users to specify various network configurations to be created depending on the current network conditions. The Network Profiles component is often commonly referred to as NWAM.

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Current Status

NWAM Phase 0 integrated into nevada build 62. Additional information about phase 0, including how to enable it and some debugging tips, can be found here.

Service Discovery integrated into nevada build 72. Refer to the Service Discovery section for more information about this component, including future directions.

We're currently finalizing the design of NWAM Phase 1; refer to the in-progress specification for more details. We also have a specification for the Phase 1 GUI.

We are starting a wiki that will be used for collaborating on topics related to NWAM.

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Project Overviews

Our project lead Renee Danson gave a presentation (PDF, 248KB) at the Solaris Network Forum on December 11, 2007. The talk covered motivations for and goals of the NWAM project, as well as an overview of how we plan to address those in the various phases of the project.

Project lead emeritus John Beck gave a presentation (PDF, 210KB) to the Bay Area OpenSolaris user group meeting on March 22, 2007. The talk included a project overview as well as Phase 0 implementation details and future plans.

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Background Information

Read the story boards to learn what we think the user experience ought to be like, and the Requirements which those stories imply for this project, then our Architecture for what we think our high-level design will look like.

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Blogs

jbeck - OGB Positions & Bio

Mar 6, 1:00 PM

Philosophy I believe in open communication and open development. Communication Our (Sun's) communication with the OpenSolaris community has been poor. We need to be clearer about both making ...

mph - Stiletto 2

Jan 8, 9:20 PM

I listen to a lot of music. When I was younger I would listen to music while working but over the last decade or so I've found that difficult. Attention wonders with words, thoughts, rhyme, and ...

mph - memories AND adventure

Jan 6, 7:05 PM

There are many reasons to like music. I often see it as fleeting. As soon as a note is played it is over. A Phil Lesh quote would suggest that he and Jerry Garcia would have agreed: Jerry put it the ...

mph - why

Jan 6, 6:19 PM

There are many reasons to live here. Even with all the hard work days like today are one of them.

mph - glad I don't have to drive

Jan 5, 7:04 PM

This is the reason to keep up with your snow blowing (roughly 36 hours into this storm sequence). But a little snow blowing and shoveling and at least we won't have to work so hard tomorrow!