sowmini.varadhan at sun.com wrote:
> As you point out, the converse situation holds for ifconfig-
> all ifconfig operations today are non-persistent, so the library
> really needs to be able to do both versions (in order to
> support both ipadm and ifconfig needs), though ifconfig is
> not going to start support the "persistent/non-persistent" flag.
If we think we can finish this (libipadm with persistence and being used
by ifconfig) by the next minor release then we can at least consider
making persistent the only way - even when ifconfig is used as the CLI.
Erik
