Peter Memishian wrote:
>  > For instance, the specification of the zone to which a name applies 
>  > could be implicit, e.g. during the creation of a zone from zonecfg(1M), 
>  > or explicit when invoking dladm(1M).
> 
> By "explicit when invoking dladm" do you mean that I'd have to also
> include a zone name?  That's exactly the part that concerns me, since it
> means higher-level consumers of dladm or libdladm have to start tracking
> zone names along with link names -- and update this state on a zone
> rename.  Possible, but neither simple nor beautiful.

That's what I had in mind, and I agree that we need to be careful here. 
An alternative would be to restrict the management of these zone-local 
link names from within zone configuration tools.

Nicolas.

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Nicolas Droux, Solaris Kernel Networking
Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://blogs.sun.com/droux


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