Link Names and the dladm Command

Subcommands of the dladm command have either been created or modified to work with link names. For more detailed information about dladm subcommands, refer to the dladm(1M) man page.

show-phys

Displays the device names and the physical attributes of each device. This subcommand displays the equivalent information as the show-dev subcommand. However, to leverage the use of link names, use the show-phys subcommand instead of the show-dev subcommand.

rename-link

Assigns a new link name to replace an existing link name.

show-link

Displays information about available data links in the system.

create-vlan

Configures a VLAN in the network.

show-vlan

Lists existing VLANs in the network.

delete-vlan

Removes an unused VLAN. A VLAN that is being used cannot be deleted.

delete-phys

Removes all link configurations that are associated with a removed NIC. This operation allows the link name to be used with another data-link with new link configurations.

Changes were also implemented on current dladm subcommands to enable the following operations to work with link names:

• Creating link aggregations.

• Administering autopush link properties.