network-admin(1) User Commands network-admin(1)NAMEnetwork-admin - Basic administration of network interfaces.
SYNOPSISnetwork-admin [--configure=INTERFACE] [--configure-type=TYPE] [gnome-
std-options]
DESCRIPTIONnetwork-admin enumerates the interfaces available to the user and pro‐
vides a mechanism for configuring these interfaces as static-IP or
DHCP. It's also possible to select which interfaces should be enabled
on boot.
network-admin also allows you configure the systems hostname, DNS
options and hosts using the user interface.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-c, --configure=INTERFACE Configure a specific network interface
(e.g. ath0 or bge0).
-t, --configure-type=TYPE Configure the first network interface
of a specific type (e.g. ethernet or
wireless).
gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with
most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-
options(5) for more information.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Running the main application.
example% network-admin
Example 2: Configuring the ath0 network interface.
example% network-admin --configure=ath0
Example 3: Configuring the first ethernet interface.
example% network-admin --configure-type=ethernet
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Application exited successfully
>0 Application exited with failure
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/network-admin Executable for network interface con‐
figuration.
/etc/inet/gnome-system-tools Storage location for network configura‐
tion files when not active on boot.
/var/spool/setup-tool-backends/backup/network
Backup directory for files that are
modified.
/var/spool/setup-tool-backends/data/network
Where "Location" profiles are stored.
/var/run/setup-tool-backends/debug/network
Debug logs can be found under here.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │desktop/administra‐ │
│ │tion/gnome-system-tools │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Interface stability │Uncommitted │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSO
Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.
users-admin(1), shares-admin(1), services-admin(1), time-admin(1),
gnome-std-options(5), ifconfig(1M), hosts(4), nsswitch.conf(4),
resolv.conf(4), attributes(5)NOTES
This tool can only be used to manage physical network devices as
returned by the "dladm show-dev" command, it does not support configu‐
ration of more complex configurations.
There is currently no support for enterprise name services such as
YP/NIS, NIS+ or LDAP. There is also no support for anything but the
global zone.
Written by Darren Kenny, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006.
SunOS 5.11 6 Nov 2006 network-admin(1)
