required if you are using Infiniband or multiple Ethernet
interfaces.</para>
<para condition='l27'>The <literal>lnetctl</literal> utility can be used
- to initialize LNet without bringing up any network interfaces. This
- gives flexibility to the user to add interfaces after LNet has been
- loaded.</para>
+ to initialize LNet without bringing up any network interfaces. Network
+ interfaces can be added after configuring LNet via <literal>lnetctl</literal>.
+ <literal>lnetctl</literal> can also be used to manage an operational LNet.
+ However, if it wasn't initialized by <literal>lnetctl</literal> then
+ <literal>lnetctl lnet configure</literal> must be invoked before
+ <literal>lnetctl</literal> can be used to manage LNet.</para>
<para condition='l27'>DLC also introduces a C-API to enable
configuring LNet programatically. See <xref
linkend="lnetconfigurationapi"/></para>