hi folks i'm a bit confused about the need to store temporary configuration data in the link id management API, and i was wondering if you could help me understand the need to do this.
are there other reasons that temporary data is stored in /var/run/datalink.conf other than that cited in section 2 of the Link Id Management Design - i.e. that this data is needed in the case of a restart of dlmgmtd? (i'm assuming in this case the temporary data is needed in order to apply all the temporary changes again rather than reverting to persistently-configured state - have i got this right?). the reason i'm asking is we're trying to figure out the what/how of the SMF representation, and representing temporary data there is quite complex (our hope had been that temporary configuration was represented by kernel state, as would be the case with the interfaces i'd plumbed and configured non-persistently). thanks! alan
