On 10/05/09 13:19, Darren Reed wrote:
Girish Moodalbail wrote:
On 10/05/09 09:43, Gireesh Nagabhushana wrote:
So, are we getting APIs which can be used for interface configurations?
Plumb/unplumb was his initial requirement. His last mail was not just on
plumb/unplumb but on a wide number of operations on network interfaces
which we do through ndd/dladm/ifconfig..
We know the gaping hole in doing network interface configuration
programmatically in Solaris. We are addressing this issue in Brussels
II project. More on it here:
http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2009/306/commitment.materials/
and here
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/brussels/
However it will be a while before we could make those API's public.
Why?
For the simple reason that Brussels II delivers components in a phased manner
and by the first phase we wouldn't have every feature supported to make the
API's stable and public. Please check the PSARC commitment materials.
~Girish
That's quite sad :-(
We seem to sometimes miss the obvious things, in our pursuit of the
finer details. For example, how hard would it be to support a library
function call that was a "x = create_interface("foo0")" and then one that
was "add_address_to_interface(x, "192.168.1.1/24")''?
Darren
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