On 25/03/09 12:10 PM, Sowmini.Varadhan at Sun.COM wrote: > On (03/25/09 15:07), Sebastien Roy wrote: > >>>> If there are no addresses, then there is no point in "plumbing" the >>>> associated interface under the hood. The administrator's intent is >>>> implicit in the addresses that are configured over the interface. >>>> >>>> >>> what if I want to plumb the interface just to snoop the traffic >>> on it? (I've done this in the past). >>> >> You don't need to plumb IP to use snoop on the link. >> > > Ok, bad example. But I would imagine that there are some cases > where you really want to separate interface plumbing and address > configuration e.g., ppp, so that having "create-interface" just > create this virtual object with no physical underpinning will > not suffice. >
Does an interface need to be plumb'd for DHCP? And does an interface being used with DHCP need any addresses before DHCP is started? Or is it sufficient to say that DHCP will assign one? And/or use one of those special addresses if DHCP fails? Darren -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/brussels-dev/attachments/20090325/69a60160/attachment.html>
