On (05/14/09 09:21), Garrett D'Amore wrote: >>>> >>> the actual link layer info itself is stored in the mac_impl_t itself. >>> It's not clear to me why DLDIOC_MACADDRGET has to be a privileged >>> operation. Perhaps someone on Crossbow can clarify? >>> >> >> We've discussed this before ... >> >> https://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=365727 >> >> The Crossbow folks were imitating 'ifconfig', but at least Seb and I >> think it's actually a Crossbow bug. >> >> > Add me to that list. I've always felt that mac address information > should be available to non-root users.
Well, as part of ipadm, we have to provide an alternative for "ifconfig net0 ether .." and the most logical place would be as a dladm linkprop. So the show-linkprop will provide this as a freebie. --Sowmini _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
