Erik Nordmark wrote: > David Edmondson wrote: > > >> I can imagine that specific example being useful when using some kind >> of scripted zone creation. > > > My imagination isn't that good. I still don't understand the your use > case :-(
One contention is that you need to know what the real device name is when you create the zone, regardless of what it gets called inside the zone, so you may as well use that inside your script to build the zone.. But to come up with some use cases... A good case example of why being able to have every zone use net0 is with ipfilter config files. If I develop an ipf.conf file for a particular class of zone then I can reuse that file in a zone regardless of the actual device. It also means that if I create the zone to use DHCP then I can have the same /etc/hostname.foo file in each zone too (but that use case depends on DHCP being delivered for exclusive stack zones.) If every zone has the same network interface name then it is easier for me to write a script to interrogate each zone because I don't need to find out what the name of the network interface is in that zone. Darren
