On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 12:11:36PM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > Notably: it is *only* the plumbing that requires complicated gyrations > to set up. The rest (such as setting the interface address and mask) > are handled with normal BSD-type ioctls, and should be no real problem.
Well, not if you want DHCP, as was pointed out earlier. > I think the direction OpenSolaris is going in the future is to downplay > the role of plumbing. That's where NWAM seems to be headed -- > everything is plumbed at boot time, and automatically updated when > hardware is added or removed. Thus, very few applications should be > plumbing or unplumbing interfaces, if any at all. And that's > particularly true for Ethernet-type interfaces. Yes, and this is good. That interfaces have to be "plumbed" at all is a really weird detail of Solaris. Nico -- _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
