On (01/23/09 11:28), Dave Miner wrote: > > Some belated comments: > > - Should discuss what happens to libinetcfg, which this would appear to > supercede
good point. The libinetcfg interfaces were Consolidation Private. libipadm will merge those interfaces in, and the eventual goal (after sufficient implementation experience has been obtained) is to make the libipadm interfaces Public. > - 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. yes, the -p option will be supported. But I'm not sure what you have in mind, when you speak of the need for filtering options- could you please clarify? > - 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. I personally agree with you, but the design also does not prohibit the addtion of non-persistent versions down the road, should we find an actual need for these. --Sowmini
