On Nov 8, 2007, at 6:39 PM, sowmini.varadhan at sun.com wrote: > 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
That shouldn't mean that capability in the GUI to specify a arbitrary MTU should be removed. Even MacOS X allows one to do this in the Network preference pane, which is its analog to this. One other thing aside from MTU - capabilities of specific chipsets out there range widely, even within the same product family (eg, BCM NetXtreme 56xx/57xx). It would be nice if dladm and the GUI provided a run down of what the driver will do for a respective chipset so as to answer admin's questions such as "Does my NIC support jumbo frames?", "Can it do VLAN tagging?", "Can it do 802.3ad?", "Does it sport a TOE?" It would be very nice if dladm and the GUI could provide this information easily since the first step in setting a property is knowing if you're capable of doing it in the first place. /dale
