On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 17:48 +0100, Darren Reed wrote: > I think that's going to an extreme... > But if networking things start providing front ends to stuff in SMF, > the equivalent to "editting a text file" might be "running svccfg" to > directly manipulate the property rather than use a front end?
In the example you gave with VNIC configuration, wasn't the solution to run "dladm show-vnic -P" to discover that you in fact had a VNIC persistently configured (explaining why you couldn't create it again), followed by "dladm delete-vnic <vnic>" to delete that VNIC? There's definitely a bug or RFE in there somewhere. If a VNIC fails to come up (become activated) at boot, how does one get it to come up subsequently? Perhaps dladm up-vnic (and the other up-* subcommands) needs to be documented. -Seb
