Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> My one sort of pseudo-general question here is, what are the consumers
> for this dladm output? Are there are any in particular that we know of
> that need the parseable output, or are we just perceiving that they
> might be useful to some admin somewhere? ('Cause I gotta tell you, I
> have a hard time thinking of any day-in-day out sort of scripting
I can think of plenty, but the top of my list example is using the ESSID
of an active link to switch which ipfilter ruleset I activate. For
example if I know I'm at home because the ESSID says I am I might have
some things open that I wouldn't I've I'm on some previously unknown
open public network, then if I'm on sunwifi I might do something
different again.
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Darren J Moffat
