Cathy Zhou wrote:
Hi,
I am interested in the user expectation of icfg_get_if_list() function
in libinetcfg after the Clearview vanity naming project. Specifically,
the icfg_get_if_list() function is a API to get a list of interfaces. It
can take either ICFG_PLUMBED or ICFG_INSTALLED as the input argument,
and I am interested in the latter case:
After network vanity naming is implemented, when icfg_get_if_list() is
called with ICFG_INSTALLED, is user expect to get the list of network
NIC device name list as today or the list of link names (could be vanity
names)? Note that the latter will include other type of links, in
particular, VLANs.
Based on the original intended usage, which was to provide the list of
objects that could be plumbed into being an IP interface, I'd say the
latter.
[ It seems that libinetcfg is consolidation private, and I didn't find
any user is using icfg_get_if_list() that takes the ICFG_INSTALLED
argument, so I assume there is no users right now. Is this assumption
right? ]
As far as I know, there aren't any consumers yet, but NWAM is planning
to use it in phase 1.
Dave
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