Sebastien Roy writes: > On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 15:04 -0400, Sowmini.Varadhan at Sun.COM wrote: > > On (03/25/09 15:01), 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.
But if you did want to do that (even though it's not needed for snoop), you could always configure address 0.0.0.0 and mark it as "down." That'd be equivalent to plumbing IP. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
