Hi Seb, Philip Kirk - Solaris Sustaining wrote:
> A high level comment is that the document dives straight in to talking > about datalink interfaces. It would be really nice if we could point > readers to the Network Link Names Overview document here: > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/clearview/docs/vnameoverview.pdf > > What's meant by generally here, "It generally gives administrators > flexibility in how they assign names to network interfaces.". It sounds > like there might be cases where it's not possible or that there are > restrictions on naming. This might be a good place to call out the > naming restrictions. > In some ways I think it would be worth moving some of the conclusions to > earlier in the document but also expanding it to mention that if you > just start renaming things without planning then you'll likely break > things. It's obvious but I'm sure we've all run some commands only to > then realize that we've just created a big problem. > If you point to the overview document, then you can refer to this same document to address what Phil is saying about naming restrictions as well as precautions about randomly deployingvanity names. That way, you won't have to fully elaborate on this, and just focus on the refinement of the use cases as given in the feedback. BTW, I mentioned a 2-week feedback period before I take the steps to submit to BigAdmin, and that period ends this week. We can extend to keep it open to more feedback, if you want. We have no deadlines on our heads anyway ;) Raoul
