Configuring hardware entities is the pre-provisioning use case. As Bart described, it's quite important for rollouts and field operations.
I support the addition of stacking capability in the config=true /entity branch. Thanks, Athanasios Kyparlis -----Original Message----- From: netmod [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Juergen Schoenwaelder Sent: Monday, August 1, 2016 5:53 AM To: William Lupton <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [netmod] BBF extensions to ietf-entity On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 10:48:01AM +0100, William Lupton wrote: > Sorry, I was talking only about the interface _stack_ configuration. Ref RFC > 7223 Section 3.3: > > While the interface layering is configured in interface-type-specific models, > two generic state data leaf-lists, "higher-layer-if” and "lower-layer-if", > represent a read-only view of the interface layering hierarchy. > > I was just wondering whether configuration of entity relationships might be > analogous. > Once question is what does it means to configure hardware entities. Or to ask the question differently, perhaps BBF really intents to configure interfaces instead of phsyical ports. /js -- Juergen Schoenwaelder Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH Phone: +49 421 200 3587 Campus Ring 1 | 28759 Bremen | Germany Fax: +49 421 200 3103 <http://www.jacobs-university.de/> _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod _______________________________________________ netmod mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/netmod
