Seconded.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Cross-posting to opensolaris-discuss as requested by Eric Boutilier;
--Sowmini
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Dec 19 11:38:49 2006
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:38:34 -0500 (EST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: project proposal: unifying NIC configuration via dladm
To: [email protected]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'd like to propose creating an OpenSolaris project to solve the
problem described below.
Currently, there is a lack of a uniform interface for configuring
commonly used parameters for nic drivers. Some or all of the
methods below are used to customize, or obtain status about,
driver configuration:
(a) driver.conf(4) with the additional problem that the syntax
for each driver is not standardized or documented, so that one
has to search through driver sources to find the syntax for
a given parameters,
(b) ndd(1M) with the drawback that ndd can only be used to set/get
a subset of scalar parameters,
(c) via obp on sparc,
(d) kstat (1M) can be used to read existing configuration for some
parameters
Moreover the same feature may sometimes be set via multiple means
(e.g., some parameters may be set by (a) or (b) or (c)).
Project "Nemo", aka GLDv3 provides a path for a more unified solution
to this problem: it would be cleaner to provide a uniform interface
to configuring drivers by using the dld layer as the intermediary.
The initial phase of this project will involve the provision of a generic
configuration management interface for Nemo (and non-Nemo, via softmac)
drivers via dladm. This work would comprise two major pieces:
standardizing driver configuration via dladm, and providing the needed
capability from NIC drivers controlled by Sun.
--Sowmini
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