On (06/13/07 11:13), Darren.Reed at Sun.COM wrote: > Sowmini, > > In the competitive analysis, I'd recommend that you look more > closely at what BSD offers via "ifconfig" as this is typically the > interface used when setting some parameters, such as the > media type (10BT, 100BT-FDX, etc.) sysctl is not as often used > for network device driver settings. Obviously the persistance > method used is also specific to ifconfig, not sysctl.
Understood, but in the case of Solaris, the ifconfig syntax is already heavily overloaded (see ifconfig(1M), for example!), and related functionality (like wifi, linkaggr) has already chosen dladm as the config tool in favor of overloaded ifconfig, so that it makes sense to stick with that trend for other drivers. If we had to look for a replacement for ndd at the network layer (which Brussels will investigate in later phases), then the closest BSD analog would be sysctl.. --Sowmini
