yeah i know. The interface should be shown by ifconfig as soon as it is detected ( or bound to an instance of the driver). plumbing if at all necessary can be done internally.
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Nicolas Williams <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 12:11:36PM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > > Notably: it is *only* the plumbing that requires complicated gyrations > > to set up. The rest (such as setting the interface address and mask) > > are handled with normal BSD-type ioctls, and should be no real problem. > > Well, not if you want DHCP, as was pointed out earlier. > > > I think the direction OpenSolaris is going in the future is to downplay > > the role of plumbing. That's where NWAM seems to be headed -- > > everything is plumbed at boot time, and automatically updated when > > hardware is added or removed. Thus, very few applications should be > > plumbing or unplumbing interfaces, if any at all. And that's > > particularly true for Ethernet-type interfaces. > > Yes, and this is good. That interfaces have to be "plumbed" at all is a > really weird detail of Solaris. > > Nico > -- >
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