> A physical interface has logical interfaces and it is the logical interfaces > that have IP addresses.
Yes, I know -- but from an administrative perspective, the first physical interface is not necessarily a logical interface -- e.g., ifconfig -a does not display it that way. > For example, while you can do "ifconfig bge0", the output > of this is the same as "ifconfig bge0:0" which implies that when you do Yes, I know. > I would also encourage you and your project team members to have > your prelimary designs officially reviewed by PSARC (if you haven't > done so already) and to get the ARCs opinion this, well before you are > ready to line up for commitment review. We will. That said, one of our team members is on PSARC, and other PSARC members (such as Jim Carlson) have already been active in providing feedback. > While I want to agree with you about this, I've been told numerous > times that physical interfaces do not have an IP address in Solaris. That is true as per the implementation, but not as per the administrative model. > If you mean "bge0" as in all logical interfaces on bge0 then does it > matter what IP address(es) are in the packet? Surely it is more > important to know which physical and logical interface a packet is > associated with? Or how else do you intend to discover when a packet > is being transmitted on bge0 that contains no IP address that would > indicate it belongs to that interface? Please read the design document I previously mentioned. It discusses the trade-offs and rationale behind our approach. -- meem _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
