On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 15:28 -0400, Sowmini.Varadhan at Sun.COM wrote: > On (03/25/09 15:23), Sebastien Roy wrote: > > 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... > > yes, but the idea is that pppd will use ipadm_create_interface() > to plumb the link. > > As will the clustering code etc.
It only needs to create an IP interface if it's going to add IP addresses to it, and it can then add those addresses with ipadm_add_address(). I'm sorry, I still don't understand your point. The plumbing of the IP interface under the hood will happen either way. -Seb
