> > - 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.
I'm confused; how could libipadm be used by ifconfig without non-persistent support? The ipadm utility should be very simple and should care very little about persistence -- all that logic should be in libipadm. -- meem
