Oracle Exam 1Z0-580 Topic 4 Question 11 Discussion

* vnic-link

A virtual network interface created on a link or an etherstub. It is a pseudo device that can be treated as if it were an network interface card on a machine.

* vlan-link

A VLAN datalink.

* bridge

A bridge instance, identified by an administratively-chosen name. The name may use any alphanumeric characters or the underscore, _, but must start and end with an alphabetic character. A bridge name can be at most 31 characters. The name default is reserved, as are all names starting with SUNW.

Note:

* dladm-- administer data links

* The dladm command is used to administer data-links. A data-link is represented in the system as a STREAMS DLPI (v2) interface which can be plumbed under protocol stacks such as TCP/IP. Each data-link relies on either a single network device or an aggregation of devices to send packets to or receive packets from a network.

Each dladm subcommand operates on one of the following objects:

link

A datalink, identified by a name. In general, the name can use any alphanumeric characters (or the underscore, _), but must start with an alphabetic character and end with a number. A datalink name can be at most 31 characters, and the ending number must be between 0 and 4294967294 (inclusive). The ending number must not begin with a zero. Datalink names between 3 and 8 characters are recommended.

Some subcommands operate only on certain types or classes of datalinks. For those cases, the following object names are used:

phys-link

A physical datalink.

vlan-link

A VLAN datalink.

aggr-link

An aggregation datalink (or a key; see NOTES).

ether-link

A physical Ethernet datalink.

wifi-link

A WiFi datalink.

vnic-link

A virtual network interface created on a link or an etherstub. It is a pseudo device that can be treated as if it were an network interface card on a machine.

iptun-link

An IP tunnel link.

dev

A network device, identified by concatenation of a driver name and an instance number.

etherstub

An Ethernet stub can be used instead of a physical NIC to create VNICs. VNICs created on an etherstub will appear to be connected through a virtual switch, allowing complete virtual networks to be built without physical hardware.

bridge

A bridge instance, identified by an administratively-chosen name. The name may use any alphanumeric characters or the underscore, _, but must start and end with an alphabetic character. A bridge name can be at most 31 characters. The name default is reserved, as are all names starting with SUNW.

Note that appending a zero (0) to a bridge name produces a valid link name, used for observability.

secobj

A secure object, identified by an administratively-chosen name. The name can use any alphanumeric characters, as well as underscore (_), period (.), and hyphen (-). A secure object name can be at most 32 characters.