On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 15:20 -0400, Girish Moodalbail wrote:
> On 03/25/09 15:18, Darren Reed wrote: 
> > 
> > Does an interface need to be plumb'd for DHCP?
> Yes it needs to be.

But interface plumbing is irrelevant to this discussion, which is about
the administrative objects and how the administrator interacts with
them, and not the underlying implementation.  The administrator doesn't
care about when the interface gets plumbed as long as DHCP obtains a
lease and configures an address.  So, for example:

ipadm create-interface net0
ipadm add-address -f inet -a type=dhcp net0

Everything that the administrator wants is implied above, and I didn't
specify a redundant "-f inet" in the "create-interface" subcommand.

However this gets implemented under the hood is up to ipadm.  If DHCP
needs to "plumb" something, then great.

-Seb



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