Steven Stallion writes: > While doing some interface testing this evening, I managed to botch an > configured invocation and accidentally set the POINTOPOINT flag on the > interface. > > I was unable to reset the flag to (BROADCAST was intended) unless I > first unplumbed the interface. > > Is this correct behavior? I did not find anything in the man pages > indicating this and was curious if this may be a bug or simply a case of > operator error.
Not being able to reset it seems right to me, but being able to set it at all sounds like a bug. The POINTOPOINT flag is a property of the underlying medium. There's no reasonable way that this can be specified by the user, and we really shouldn't allow it. (I suspect there are other skeletons buried here ...) -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
