topic Re: unplumb in Operating System - HP-UX

unplumb

Waugh — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:07:29 GMT

Hi,

#ifconfig lan3 unplumb what is the impact of this command on lan3. Is it deconfigering or what.

Reagrds
Rkumar

Re: unplumb

Adam W. — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:13:07 GMT

Check this out:
http://www.unix.com/ip-networking/53533-what-unplumb.html

Basically it enables and disables a stream.

Check this out too

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=693894

Re: unplumb

Rita C Workman — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:13:12 GMT

Well in "manpage" terms it tears down the Streams plumbing for the interface name.
So it's tearing down the the lan card name or assignment information.
Deconfiguring...nnnooo. It's still there, so it's not deconfigured. It just lan3 and nothing else.

man ifconfig

Hope that made some sense.
Regards,
Rita

Re: unplumb

rick jones — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:00:03 GMT

It means that the SAPs (ethertypes) for IP and ARP will be unbound from the lan3 interface. It is "disconnecting" IP and ARP from the interface.