On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 15:19 -0400, Sowmini.Varadhan at Sun.COM wrote: > On (03/25/09 12:18), Darren Reed wrote: > > Does an interface need to be plumb'd for DHCP? > > one could argue that the plumbing is done internal to the library > call that sends the dhcp request.
Exactly, "plumbing" is an implementation detail. I'm trying to suggest an administrative model. The ipadm command and the objects it operates on don't need to mirror the kernel objects used to implement this model 1-1. In fact, that's been a problem in the current implementation. > but I think ppp's lcp etc need to have the plumbing first, ip address > configuration later. LCP is a link-layer configuration protocol, and is not related to IP. Are you perhaps thinking of the pppd "plumbed" option? This is kind of a hack to begin with, but I'm sure you could follow that hack with another, which is to create a 0.0.0.0 address using ipadm... -Seb
