Please provide a one-line or two-line overview of your networking environment.
very simple setup: gigabit switches, only static routing, and only one default router. Do you frequently change or upgrade your network interface cards? no. Do you modify existing NIC configuration or adjust the tunables? If yes, how frequently do you perform these tasks? no. What tools or commands do you use to administer NICs? Are you satisfied with the existing tools? ifconfig and echo. works for me. What do you like about the current methods to administer NICs? Please be as specific as possible. easily scriptable What do you dislike about the current methods to administer NICs? Please be as specific as possible. can't think of anything, really What are the typical NIC tunables or properties that you monitor most of the time? Please indicate whether you merely obtain (read-only information) the current settings of a property, or you tune the current settings (read-write information). traffic counters for graphs. Do you have scripts that run at boot time which set ndd parameters? no. Do you write custom drivers? no. Do you use Link Aggregation (?Trunking?)? no. I ought to be using IPMP to configure a standby interface for redundancy, though. Do you use WiFi? no. Have you used the dladm as a configuration tool, such as dladm set-linkprop? no Are you interested in a GUI-based version of the dladm command? GUI is a waste of time, CLI rules. it's also a nuisance to make X forwarding work with multiple hops. Should the GUI-based tool be capable of tweaking all of the available NIC properties? no opinion. 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? it would be nice to be presented with the common values (9000, 1500, 1492 (PPPoE), 1478 (optimal for PPPoA), 1454 (optimal for PPPoE over ATM)), but it should be possible to select an arbitrary value. -- kind regards, Kjetil T. Homme sysadmin R&D, FAST -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/brussels-dev/attachments/20071121/4b479b68/attachment.html>
