All,

I was thinking today, after another request to translate ports on the back 
of a host into physical slots, that it would be very cool for the userbase 
to be able to run a command like

# dladm show-slot
qfe0            PCI3            "/pci at 8,700000/pci at 2/SUNW,qfe at 0,1"
qfe1            PCI3            "/pci at 8,700000/pci at 2/SUNW,qfe at 1,1"
qfe2            PCI3            "/pci at 8,700000/pci at 2/SUNW,qfe at 2,1"
qfe3            PCI3            "/pci at 8,700000/pci at 2/SUNW,qfe at 3,1"
ge0             ONBOARD         "/pci at 8,600000/network at 1"
(etc)

This should certainly be do-able for any Sun manufactured machines, and 
would be a nice touch.

The main idea here is that way a single, simple command will yield 
understandable-to-most results without the need to understand too much. 
HP-UX has "lanscan" and "ioscan" to provide some degree of similar 
information.

Extra points for something that covers host bus adapters as well.

Comments, team?

Andre.


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