[brussels-dev] [driver-discuss] [networking-discuss] pausel bits setting within Solaris

[Raymond LI - Sun Microsystems - Beijing China]

Joost Mulders wrote:
>>> I think we need a friendly UI for pause setting, while keeping the
>>> ieee802.3 tunable as many as
>>> possible. I wonder some users may really tweak these value, isn't it?
>>>
>>>       
>
> The current goal for brussels is to unfiy link administration for  
> NIC's. If you want to *simplify* administration, my first bet would  
> be to allow string value's for properties in dladm.
>
> Currently, most parameters take a value of 0 or 1 because passing  
> strings using ndd is dificult (or impossible?). With string value's  
> one could say meaningful statements like
>   duplex=full
>   flowcontrol=send,accept
> etc. This would allow collapsing of a lot of properties.
>
> If the value must be entered numerical I would stick with 1 or 0 (ON,  
> OFF) because it's difficult to remember the meaning of '5' in a link  
> property context :-)
>   
Agree, we should use 0/1.