On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 15:10 -0400, 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. ... > > 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
I can't think of such a case. I'm currious about your example; what would PPP have to do with that? The pppd daemon responsible for PPP configuration creates PPP links and IP addresses over those links itself, it has no need to plumb IP interfaces without addresses... > , so that having "create-interface" just > create this virtual object with no physical underpinning will > not suffice. I'm having a difficult time understanding what you mean by "virtual object with no physical underpinning". IP interfaces don't need physical underpinning at all. -Seb
