[indiana-discuss] Disabling NWAN and you can't boot... :(

[Renee Danson]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:00:27PM -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 17:38 +0200, Gilles Gravier wrote:
> > Dave Miner wrote:
> > > No, because the dependency graph for milestone/network requires one of
> > > the instances of network/physical to be online, and milestone/network
> > > in turn has many dependents.  Enable either network/physical:nwam or
> > > network/physical:default (the latter is effectively a no-op if there
> > > are no /etc/hostname.* files).
> > 
> > Yes, I figured as much.
> > 
> > But this means that you can't run open solaris with networking turned
> > off or (through some strange occurence) disabled. That's a very bad
> > single point of failure.
> 
> Perhaps NWAM Phase 1 addresses this by allowing a profile with no
> network interfaces...

That's an interesting idea.  It's not something we explicitly set out
to make possible, but I think you probably could do it.  You would need
to make an NCP (network configuration profile) with all the components
(links and interfaces) having manual activation, and disable all of them.

-renee