16.8. Other Operating Systems

The Network Configuration module is also available on several other operating systems, with options fairly similar to those of Linux. Due to the different features supported by network configuration files on other versions of UNIX, in some sections the user interface is quite different. The supported systems and the variations between them and Linux are:

Sun Solaris and SCO UnixWare

• When editing a boot-time network interface, all that can be changed is the IP address.

• The boot-time settings for the loopback interface cannot be edited at all. Both operating systems always enable it at boot with the IP address 127.0.0.1.

• On the routing and gateways page, multiple default routers can be entered. There is no need to specify a default route device though, as it is always worked out automatically.

FreeBSD and NetBSD

• There is no option to use DHCP to automatically assign an address for an interface at boot time.

• On the routing and gateways page, there is no default route device field. However, there is an additional Start route discovery daemon? option.

• The hardware address of an active interface cannot be changed.

• When creating a virtual interface, the netmask must be entered as 255.255.255.255.

OpenBSD

• On the routing and gateways page, there is no default route device field. However, there is an additional Start route discovery daemon? option.

• The hardware address of an active interface cannot be changed.

Mac OS X

• On the routing and gateways page, only options for setting the default router and controlling it if this system acts as a router are displayed.

• On the DNS client page, no list of resolution orders appears, because the hosts file is always checked first, followed by DNS.