> At the link layer, this certainly makes sense to me. It would IMO be > useful to have something to bring links administratively down with > dladm. Also, what I've thought about in the past is that (if done > right) this could help with the usability of DR by allowing hardware to > be replaced while a link is administratively down without having to > unplumb any IP interfaces of stop applications that are using the link. > The link state simply goes down during the DR operation. This also > helps by circumventing the wacky cfgadm hardware namespace that no-one > understands.
You don't need to expose that the link is administratively down to do this -- you can just treat it as a normal link-down. In fact, if we had IPMP on by default we could do it today. -- meem _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
