On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 17:58 -0800, Tony Nguyen wrote:
> Peter Memishian wrote:
> >  >      validate_interface could just do 'dladm show-dev $1 > /dev/null
> >  >      2>&1' and test the result.
> > 
> > With the caveat that show-dev disappeared in build 105 (but it probably
> > wasn't what validate_interface was looking for anyway, given that it keyed
> > off of device names, not datalinks or IP interfaces).  I'd need to know
> > what validate_interface is trying to do to suggest an alternative approach.
> > 
> 
> Hi Meem,
> 
> Given an interface name, validate_interface verifies it's a valid 
> physical interface on the system. Looks like 'dladm show-phys' is what I 
> need. Let me know if there's better alternative.

Why "physical interface"?  The firewall doesn't work on aggregations nor
VLANs?

-Seb


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