If you need to shut down a portion of your network, or perform maintenance, you can use the vif delete
command to delete one or more interfaces from a vif. The interface must be down before you can delete it.
Steps
- Bring the vif down by entering the following command:
ifconfig vif_name down
vif_name
is the name of the vif you want to bring down.
- Enter the following command:
vif delete vif_name
interface
vif_name is the name of a vif.
interface is the
interface of the vif you want to delete.
Example
You can delete the interface e4 from a multimode vif MultiTrunk1
with the following commands:
ifconfig MultiTrunk1 down
vif
delete MultiTrunk1 e4
Note: The operation performed using the vif delete command is
not persistent across reboots unless the command is added to the
/etc/rc file.
