James Carlson wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On (06/13/07 11:13), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sowmini,
In the competitive analysis, I'd recommend that you look more
closely at what BSD offers via "ifconfig" as this is typically the
interface used when setting some parameters, such as the
media type (10BT, 100BT-FDX, etc.) sysctl is not as often used
for network device driver settings. Obviously the persistance
method used is also specific to ifconfig, not sysctl.
Understood, but in the case of Solaris, the ifconfig syntax
is already heavily overloaded (see ifconfig(1M), for example!),
and related functionality (like wifi, linkaggr) has already
chosen dladm as the config tool in favor of overloaded ifconfig,
so that it makes sense to stick with that trend for other drivers.
If we had to look for a replacement for ndd at the network layer (which
Brussels will investigate in later phases), then the closest BSD
analog would be sysctl..
I didn't read that comment as "please add these features to ifconfig
on Solaris." Instead, I read it as "please gather information about
BSD ifconfig, because that's where more things are configured there."
In other words, it was about the parameters, not about the mechanism.
(At least as I read it ...)
Yes, that is how it was meant.
Darren
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