> After some discussions with Meem over IRC, I've decided to ensure that
 > no zone can only ever open or see /dev/ipnet nodes that have equivalent
 > IP interfaces in "ifconfig -a".  Additionally, if an IP interface is
 > removed from a zone (by removing the last IP address from the zone), any
 > ipnet_t's with that interface open in that zone will be send M_HANGUP.
 > 
 > In addition, I had to add the SDEV_NO_NCACHE flag to /dev/ipnet's
 > sdev_flags, as there was a drastically negative side-effect of devname's
 > negative cache due to this change (and no, a double negative in this
 > case isn't a positive). :-)  If the system has two interfaces, A and B,
 > and only B has addresses in a non-global zone.  Doing ls /dev/ipnet/A
 > from the non-global zone should return ENOENT, and this change indeed
 > makes that happen.  Unfortunately, the devname negative cache removes A
 > from the global devname cache as a result, and A is no longer visible in
 > the global zone anymore.  Removing the negative caching fixes this
 > issue.
 > 
 > http://zhadum.east/ws/seb/seb-ipobs/webrev.zones/

I reviewed this for Seb over IRC.

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meem

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