Paul Durrant wrote:
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.
You mean many thousands of PPAs. Yes, that would be a problem. But,
afaik, the convention of using VLANs for PPAs > 1000 means that pretty
much all drivers are confined to less than 1000 PPAs.
-- Garrett
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