For some reason, I'm not able to see this on the queued list
at brussels-dev. While I check into that, here's some interesting
feedback on things that would be interesting to add on a GUI.
(real-time statistics in a graphical mode).
--Sowmini
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> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:06:10 +1100
> Subject: Project Brussels Questionnaire
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> 1. Please provide a one-line or two-line overview of your networking
> environment.
>
> I managed an enviroment with multiple network segments composed of hundreds
> of hosts in segregated VLANs.
>
> 2. Do you frequently change or upgrade your network interface cards?
>
> Yes, mainly to reset settings on NIC when they have autonegotiated to a
> slow setting.
>
> 3. Do you modify existing NIC configuration or adjust the tunables? If yes,
> how frequently do you perform these tasks?
>
> Yes, again mainly to reset. We do this anywhere from twice a week to 5
> times a week.
>
> 4. What tools or commands do you use to administer NICs? Are you satisfied
> with the existing tools?
>
> I use kstat to get the configuration details and ndd to change settings.
> Also use ifconfig.
>
> 5. What do you like about the current methods to administer NICs?
>
> They are all command line based which makes it easy to script them as
> required.
>
> 6. What do you dislike about the current methods to administer NICs?
>
> It can be tiresome having to set individual NIC settings particularly when
> using ndd especially if you haven't previously written a script for it.
>
> 7. What are the typical NIC tunables or properties that you monitor most of
> the time?
>
> We predominantly reset the duplex and speed. We are having issues with
> Gb-connections autonegotiating down to a slower speed.
>
> 8. Do you have scripts that run at boot time which set ndd parameters?
>
> Yes, we do for all NICs to ensure that they are not running on half-duplex
> or 100Mbps.
>
> 9. Do you write custom drivers? If yes, please provide any feedback about
> the following proposal by the Brussels project:
>
> No.
>
> 10. Do you use Link Aggregation ("Trunking")?
>
> No, we only use multipathing. This is more for redundancy because we do not
> have any requirements at this stage to increase throughput.
>
> 11. Do you use WiFi?
>
> No, not on servers.
>
> 12. Have you used the dladm as a configuration tool, such as dladm
> set-linkprop?
>
> No, I have not used link aggregation.
>
> 13. Are you interested in a GUI-based version of the dladm command?
>
> Yes, mainly to see real-time statistics in a graphical mode.
>
> 14. Should the GUI-based tool be capable of tweaking all of the available
> NIC properties?
>
> No preference, as long as all the settings can be tweaked via command line.
>
> 15. To configure the MTU property, would you prefer to select from a list
> of set values that is provided by the GUI, or would you prefer typing the
> value in an input field?
>
> Both, be able to select from a list as well as type a value.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Erick
>
>
>
>
>
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