[brussels-dev] [networking-discuss] per-interface tunables in ipadm/ndd

[Peter Memishian]

 > >  > I suggest a fifth possibility with two variants:
 > >  > 
 > >  >   5. Leave the global variable alone.  It becomes the 'default' for
 > >  >      newly-plumbed interfaces.  Interfaces can be configured away from
 > >  >      that value, but the global doesn't reflect those changes.
 > >
 > > I'm concerned about a model where the global variable continues to serve a
 > > userful function that cannot be otherwise filled.  That is, unless the
 > > "wildcard" mode you spoke of in a subsequent email does in fact include
 > > all future IP interfaces,
 > 
 > That's correct. Absence of interface name in 'ipadm' command means all 
 > the current interfaces and all the future interfaces.
 > 
 > To apply certain per-interface tunable, on few/all current interfaces, 
 > the user could always write a script to loop through all the desired 
 > interface and set that tunable one interface at a time.

OK that sounds fine.

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meem