Network configurator for laptops
Network
configurator for laptop
I have followed
the trend of many nascent bloggers by being silent for a long
time. So what have I been doing. Aside from doing the
normal work, I have been trying to get things organized so that we can
start putting tools and utilities that make a Solaris laptop a bit more
real. Internally we have been using a number of tools
delivered by frkit. Now the plan
is to make frkit available on laptop community
for OpenSolaris. The community is now open and a number of people
are contibuting.
Inetmenu
is one of the tools used internally to configure network
interfaces. Out of the box, Solaris and OpenSolaris don't deal
well with nomadic systems like laptops. One typically has
install Solaris as a stand alone system. Then after booting up,
the user has to manually plumb the interface, start DHCP
and then fix up the files required for DNS or
NIS. Inetmenu is a script that does all that. It
handles, wired, wireless and dial up interfaces. One
can define profiles for use. All these make life a bit
nicer for laptop users.
However Inetmenu
is just one of the network configurators. There is yet
another one that is used internally called netprof and hopefully we
should be able to have that available in not too distant future.
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