> In other words, as long as we're talking about fundamental APIs, we > need to represent the system faithfully, and that means either ripping > out the offending abstraction system-wide or leaving it in place.
Agreed. However, there is a crucial distinction here between administrative utilities and low-level API's. For the former, we need to think critically about whether there is a need to expose these distinctions, or whether simply having a model of IP addresses and (physical) IP interfaces that have sets of IP addresses is sufficient. [ I realize you were not saying otherwise -- I just want to be explicit to avoid continued confusion. ] -- meem _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
