Re: [netcf-devel] [libvirt] [RFC] Reporting host interface status/statistics via netcf/libvirt, and listing active vs. inactive interfaces

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 01:27:14PM -0700 David Lutterkort wrote: > or forever hold your peace. While talking about the relax-ng schema, I would like to again raise my question earlier raised at the netcf-devel-list in order to get some input from the libvirt developers on this matter as well. I am a bit critical to the policy restrictions of the current incarnation of the netcf API. Currently, a interface (or connection) has to have an IP address and a bridge has to have one or more interfaces attached to it. Not having the IP address restriction may collide head on with the connection-approach for some, as a connection probably have to be addressable. I however argue that this severly limits the uses for netcf, say for example to only bridge two interfaces without caring (and perhaps not wanting) to be something other then a package forwarder and not care about IP-address collisions. And in another case, the addressing is done using something other then IP.

For the bridges without added interfaces, an example is libvirt that have these private networks that I don't think I have to go in to in detail.