On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 14:47 -0700, Peter Memishian wrote: > > Sure; the general idea being that there doesn't seem to be an actual > > requirement that an IP interface be plumbed up front as a result of > > "create-interface". > > To me that's an implementation detail that is too low-level for this > discussion. The important aspect is that the administrative object for > the interface has been established and can be acted on.
That's exactly my point, and is what I think I've been saying all day long... The argument given for why -f was needed for create-interface was that there was a perceived requirement that plumbing needed to be done by create-interface, and that -f would tell it what to plumb. My counter-argument was that there is no such requirement, and therefore there is no need for -f. -Seb
