On Dec 21, 2007 12:17 AM, Renee Danson <renee.danson at sun.com> wrote: > Just to be clear here: the ip interface that's represented by an smf > service instance is per-link, not per-address. That is, one ip instance > can have many ip addresses, both v4 and v6. > > > > The idea that all network interfaces (especially logical interfaces) > > > be represented as individual services doesn't make any sense to > > > me. It makes administration much harder, and apart from the temporary > > > configuration problem isn't likely to scale. > > Can you give some specifics on how administration is harder with > this model?
Ah right. My problem was with a potentially large number of service instances being created (which is what would happen if it were one per address) simply being cumbersome. Anything that scrolls off a terminal window isn't easily manageable. But if it's limited to the number of links rather than addresses then it's much more manageable and I don't have any problems with that. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
