Sebastien Roy wrote: > Darren.Reed at Sun.COM wrote: > >> My apologies, I read "link name" as referring to the name >> of the physical link that would support the tunnel, rather >> than just the name of the tunnel link. > > > No problem. So, what do you think about requiring link names? :-)
I think link names should be optionally specified and if they aren't then dladm uses the name "ip.tun" as the base name. I also think there should be a "automatic" or "dynamic" mode of operation, so that dladm always succeeds in creating a name, regardless of what names already exist or don't exist. In all cases the output of a successful run of dladm like this should include the interface name just created, so that we can do something like: nicname=$(dladm create-iptun -s foo -d bar auto|cut -f1 -d' ') or similar. I'm tempted to suggest that it should be dladm that assigns the instance number (trailing digit(s) of the nicname), regardless of what the user supplies. Darren
