On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Enda O'Connor <Enda.Oconnor at sun.com> wrote:
> so zones depends on multiuser milestone which depends on routing-setup, so > if routing-setup depends on zones which depends on multi-user milestone, > then to me it appears like a circular dependency. > > Why would routing-setup depends on zones though, not seeing why > routing-setup would need to depend on zones. > Oy, yes. The reason is for zones of type shared IP on multi-router networks, I need to add a static route for them. route-setup which takes care of this, tries to add routes when zones have not booted yet, meaning their physical interface is 0.0.0.0, and their virtual interface is not plumbed. So the "route add" doesn't work. So what happens is the box boots, zones boot, and lacks the routing information they need. We've been having to restart route-setup once zones have finished booting, and I was trying to solve this in a short way. I did not like to add another service called "restart_routes_for_zones", it seemed clunky. There's not a state change that will alert route-setup to go back to re-add routes if new virtual interfaces are up. That would be the most ideal solution I think. Right now I think I will have to go with my clunker fix. CT
