Sowmini.Varadhan at Sun.COM wrote: > To revive this thread: I summarized all the comments > exchanged in this thread, along with subsequent 1x1 discussions > with a couple of folks at > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/brussels/files/brussels2.pdf > > Some interesting topics for discussion are on how to deal > with current methods for configuring interfaces particularly > using the network/physical:default service, and also how > to organize the current "flags" related info dumped out > by ifconfig in some useful way.. I've put out some thoughts > there- comments/opinions are invited. >
Some belated comments: - Should discuss what happens to libinetcfg, which this would appear to supercede - It's not stated explicitly whether ipadm is intended to provide both human and machine-parseable output formats. I infer from section 5 that it is, but seems a topic for section 1 and for things like show-address, which needs filtering options. - I'm skeptical of the need to provide non-persistent object manipulation. My assertion is that much of the system administration model these days is implicitly persistent, and the overall system usability would benefit from this being the default (if not only) mode used by networking as well. Dave
