On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at belenix.org> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > This thing came to my mind yesterday. Post build 83 we have Clearview > Vanity Naming support for network devices: > http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/sundocs/articles/vnamingsol.jsp > > What this means that instead of a little unfamiliar network interface names > like bge0, e1000g0 and so on we can have things like eth0, eth1, wifi0 etc. > The article above mentions commands that can be used to rename network > devices and also see the real logical name to physical name mappings. > > I was wondering why not introduce an SMF service to make this automatic > so that BeleniX will by default show up the familiar names and bridge a > usability gap. This also makes getting a bunch of networking related > software to work much easier. > > What do people think ? >
I say +1 to this. Ideally, what's happening under the covers should also be apparent to the user so that in case a diagnosis or manual over ride is needed, the user can go do that. > Regards, > Moinak. > > -- > ================================ > http://www.belenix.org/ > http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ > _______________________________________________ > belenix-discuss mailing list > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss > http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss >
