On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
addresses, especially since i cannot administrative instantiate a physical interface without also instantiating an IP address (e.g., ifconfig always shows me something).
And I have to say, this is really really confusing for those who come from other Unixes and don't realise that "ifconfig" actually is pronounced as "ipconfig" on Solaris (and, as of snv, the word often pronounced as "ifconfig" is spelled "dl-adm" ;) ).
down). This also matches the model we will be presenting with IP-level observability (e.g., snooping on /dev/ipnet/bge0 will show all packets that are sent to or received from IP addresses that are hosted on bge0 -- see http://opensolaris.org/os/community/networking/ipobs-design.pdf for more details).
So what exactly does 'bge0' mean? It seems to be shorthand for more than one thing, context depending:
- When dladm prints 'bge0', it really means '/dev/bge0' (notionally at least). - When ifconfig prints 'bge0', it really means '/dev/ipnet/bge0'. - When you plumb/unplumb bge0:n, it generally means just /that/ IP interface only (/dev/ipnet/bge0:n, notionally at least) - Except for the special 0th logical interface 'bge0:0', which is also 'bge0' - which will unplumb /all/ IP addresses (just as if it were referring notionally to the physical interface 'bge0'). Any more special cases? regards, -- Paul Jakma, Network Approachability, KISS. http://quagga.ireland.sun.com/ Sun Microsystems, Dublin, Ireland. tel: EMEA x19190 / +353 1 819 9190 _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
