sowmini.varadhan at sun.com wrote:
> On (11/08/07 15:04), Darren Reed wrote:
>
>> On the MTU page, there needs to be the ability to enter in
>> an arbitrary MTU that is between 0 and MAX.
>>
>
> Actually the feedback we got from the driver and sys-admin
> community is exactly the opposite. Their feedback (see
> http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=42078&tstart=15)
> suggest that users are frequently confused about what mtu
> to use (some machines make an adjustment for layer 2 headers,
> some dont) so providing a "standard" and "jumbo" option
> in a gui is in the spirit of simplification (custom mtu
> can always be achieved via the cli).
>
(Or have an "Advanced" mode page that offers it. Normally users only
need to pick "standard" or "jumbo" though. :-)
>
>> The green icon (for link status) I understood straight away,
>> the orange one I had to think about. I don't know what to
>> suggest...but the orange icon looks just strange...
>>
>> And "1G-f" looks weird. Really weird. Toss the "-f"?
>> Or append "FDX" instead?
>>
>
> good point. We'll take this into consideration.
>
Yeah, I don't like the current display format either. I guess it was an
attempt to make a CLI fit in 80 columns, but the GUI should have no such
constraints.
-- Garrett
> --Sowmini
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