On 03/25/09 15:18, Darren Reed wrote:
On 25/03/09 12:10 PM, [email protected] wrote:
On (03/25/09 15:07), Sebastien Roy wrote:
If there are no addresses, then there is no point in "plumbing" the
associated interface under the hood. The administrator's intent is
implicit in the addresses that are configured over the interface.
what if I want to plumb the interface just to snoop the traffic
on it? (I've done this in the past).
You don't need to plumb IP to use snoop on the link.
Ok, bad example. But I would imagine that there are some cases
where you really want to separate interface plumbing and address
configuration e.g., ppp, so that having "create-interface" just
create this virtual object with no physical underpinning will
not suffice.
Does an interface need to be plumb'd for DHCP?
Yes it needs to be.
And does an interface being used with DHCP need any addresses
before DHCP is started?
Or is it sufficient to say that DHCP will assign one?
And/or use one of those special addresses if DHCP fails?
if DHCP fails it will be INADDR_ANY
~Girish
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