> I found a problem during the Clearview project development today, that a > "dladm create-vlan" operation will mysteriously cause an interface to be > plumbed. After some investigation, I found that the problem is related to > interaction of a VLAN minor node creation and the ip_rcm rcm module, and > this problem also exists in Nevada: that an interface will be plumbed when > you tries to snoop a VLAN. > > Below are the steps to reproduce the problem: > > # ifconfig bge1 > ifconfig: status: SIOCGLIFFLAGS: bge1: no such interface > > # touch /etc/hostname.bge1 > > # snoop -d bge1001 > Using device bge1001 (promiscuous mode) > ^C > > # ifconfig bge1 > bge1: flags=201000802<BROADCAST,MULTICAST,IPv4,CoS> mtu 1500 index 5 > inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0 > ether 0:3:ba:50:bd:ea >
Goodness! -- meem
