On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 12:46 -0700, Peter Memishian wrote: > > If there are no addresses, then there is no point in "plumbing" the > > associated interface under the hood. > > If you're using IPMP you may want to place the IP interfaces into a group > without assigning any IP addresses. (There's also a natural bootstrapping > phase where an IP interface has only a 0.0.0.0 address as part of getting > a DHCP address.)
The implementation knows whether IPMP or DHCP is configured (there are separate subcommands for that, right?), and therefore knows to plumb whatever it wants as a result. Why would "create-interface" need a "-f <family>" option as a result of this? -Seb
