On 4/24/07, Garrett D'Amore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At the time there were a few pieces left in Solaris that couldn't handle style 2 properly (I think snoop was one of them), but I think they are all fixed now.
I think snoop uses libdlpi, which hides all the style 1 vs. 2 nastiness.
In any case, Nemo exports both style 1 and style 2 nodes, just like GLDv2. I certainly wish style 2 would go away, but converting to Nemo apparently doesn't do this. (Though it can do so in the future by just changing Nemo to stop creating them.)
Indeed - it's very straightforward to drop style 2 from Nemo.
> On systems with lots of interfaces, will there be any problem with increased > consumption of major (?) device numbers with a style 1 provider? > Huh? No additional major numbers are consumed. Its still one major per driver.
Whilst many style 1 providers will not consume any extra majors, they will consume a lot of extra minors, so style 1 could indeed be a problem for a driver that support many thousands of providers. Paul -- Paul Durrant http://www.linkedin.com/in/pdurrant _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
