Peter Memishian wrote:
> I just think the idea that there is a relatively small set of well-known
> properties that need adjusting, that the set won't change often, and
> there will be consensus for what that set is, flies in the face of
> decades of experience of with NIC drivers.
That decade of experience has led to network administration with Solaris
reaching the breaking point (pre-dladm). I don't want to go back there.
Unquestionably, ndd was a mess. But just yanking the rug out from NIC
driver developers, customers, and PAE doesn't sound like a good solution
either.
I think there is room for compromise.
With regard to the manpages: we need to fix stale documentation, not
expend engineering effort working around it. It has much broader
consequences than dladm tunables. Things have actually gotten much better
in the past few years manpage-wise, but the networking driver manpages are
still a ghetto.
Yes, we need to fix these. Its been on my low priority TODO list for a
couple of years now.
- Garrett
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