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)
            2. nwamadm(1M)
      7. Daemon
      8. SMF Network Services
      9. Privileges and Authorizations
   9. Phase 1 Repository
   10. Phase 1 GUI Design
       1. User Tasks for NWAM Status Notification
       2. User Tasks for NWAM Configuration
       3. GUI Spec
   11. Phase 1 Test Information
   12. Prototype
       1. DL_NOTE_LINK_{UP,DOWN}
   13. Phase 0
       1. Interface Configuration Policy
       2. NWAM Phase 0 Troubleshooting
       3. nwamd(1M)
   14. Phase 0.5
   15. 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
   16. Service Discovery
       1. Applications
       2. nsswitch.dns
       3. mdnsd(1M)
   17. Glossary
   18. Files

OpenSolaris Project: Network Auto-Magic

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Approachability
Desktop
Device Drivers
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.

Some much-needed improvements are being made to phase 0, focusing primarily on improved observability by and interaction with the user. Find more information, including links to design doc, source, and early-access binaries, on the Phase 0.5 page.

We're also working on NWAM Phase 1, which will add greater flexibility/ configurability as well as a more complete User Interface; available phase 1 materials include:

• Specification
• Source repository
• GUI Design

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

mph - iPhone 3G

Aug 21, 4:02 PM

I dumped my Treo 650 the other day for an iPhone 3G . The Treo was way long in the tooth and the 3G and the GPS receiver on the iPhone 3G made it irresistible to me. A few years after I graduated ...

mph - for those that can't last untethered

Aug 21, 3:05 PM

So American Airlines announced Internet for those that can't work offline while flying. Well, okay, they announce some form of expensive cripplenet: Aircell’s Gogo will be available to customers as a ...

amaguire - Using Mercurial during the development process

Jul 30, 1:04 AM

With guidance from Anurag, I've been trying to figure out how the NWAM development process changes with the advent of Mercurial as the source code management tool for OpenSolaris. I've tried to ...

amaguire - SMF snapshots, or why didn't my property change show up in svcprop?

Jul 25, 2:41 PM

One area of SMF that is a bit confusing is the whole notion of snapshots, refresh and how property updates occur. I find this a bit tricky myself, so if there's mistakes below, I'll happily correct ...

amaguire - SMF property value ordering

Jul 22, 1:32 AM

With a lot of help from the SMF OpenSolaris community, I recently introduced a change in how the Service Management Framework (SMF) handles property values. I'll try to describe it here. Service data ...