On 25/01/2010 21:38, Christine Tran wrote: > 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 hmm, I think there is now a default router property in zonecfg, which should deal with this I believe. certainly zones cannot depend on route-setup me thinks.
cheers Enda
