jperkin, why in the 2023Q4 images hosts is linked to inet/hosts ?

it's been that way for as long as I can remember? certainly 25 years +

dan can probably provide better history

hosts has been linked to inet/hosts even in solaris 8 and maybe even sooner (there's also /etc/inet/ipnodes)

ok, I will create a smf service to update the file at every reboot

On FreeBSD 14 in a Bhyve zone, I noticed that mdata-get sdc:nics waits indefinitely if the main NIC has IP addresses assigned and the other NICs are in promiscuous mode without any IP addresses.

i might want to look at mdata-get, but i don't have any SDC where i can install freebsd into.

(as I happen to maintain net-mgmt/mdata-client port)

xmerlin: yeh that's a known bug in bhyve at the moment

jperkin: specific to illumos or in general?

s/illumos/smartos/

I don't know exactly what the problem is yet, so unknown whether it affects other serial port usage

otis: SmartOS is the only thing that has this metadata socket, so it's incidentally SmartOS only. It's unknown if it would be an issue on FreeBSD because they don't have that.

Even among illumos, we're the only ones that does it this way. So it's not an issue on OmniOS or OI simply because they don't use this mechanism.

bahamat: that's why I was saying that I don't have any SDC to install FreeBSD into.

(to test it myself to see if it would shine any light on me)

I just ran a test on Linux with the primary NIC configured with an IP and the secondary NICs without IPs in promiscuous mode, and it works without any timeout

yeh the Linux tty queue size is a lot larger

freebsd is only 384 which is why it exhibits the problem a lot more than others

Thanks for the information. Since the other metadata is being read correctly on FreeBSD, is it possible to obtain only the details of the primary NIC?

I don't think there's any way to request only a subset of sdc:nics

too many bugs, not enough time :/

lemme see if I can carve out some time this week as that one keeps biting us

xmerlin : Here's what I did as a workaround: gist.github.com/nwilkens/9d553acafad71ac68e241a19c2a54ca0

nwilkens, thank you ! I had not found in the documentation the possibility of reading the data of a single network card

ah, I guess you can ;)

I would like to implement 2FA on SmartOS global zone. I managed it that 2FA works, asking me for OTP code from Google authenticator-comaptible Android app, but it stops asking me for a password and logs me in as root, only with OTP code.

Script I found and manual is for SmartOS instance. But not for global zone.

wiedi_: oh phew! I might give the kernel smb another shot again now that I figured out how to set the guest access

hello all, is there anyway to install smartos into hdd or ssd? not boot from usb? any example? best wishes

and thanks

you want to use piadm

jbk: thank you, I’ll have a try

by the way, is there anyone had the experiense to built Triton from source? I want to build a PostgreSQL RDS on Triton, seems there are a lot of dependence, is a little hard to build from source