djr-0 I concur with jmp0 and I'm afraid that NWAM is going to create a network administration that makes life easier for those that point and click with their mouse and are happy but will cause much consternation if it defaults to on for server installations. Feedback from professional systems administrators has indicated that they dislike for the "lets bury network interface admin in a directory tree under /etc, somewhere" - as Linux does. djr-1 If I'm doing a jumpstart install today, I can use /etc/hostname.* and friends to deliver files as part of the installation that completely configure my host for the network. If the new default install is with NWAM active and these legacy files are no longer used, how is this not a regression for me? Where will I find documentation on all of this? djr-2 Why is only /etc/hosts managed by NWAM? Why have the others (services, networks, netmasks, inetd.conf, ntp.conf) been forgotten? Is this proposal complete if it is only managing a few of these files and not all?