A revised illustration that incorporates Meem's earlier recommendations has been posted on our project page:
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/clearview/cv-linkif.gif Aside from showing the interrelationships between the devices, links, and interfaces, it also shows how vanity naming might be applied to the configuration. The illustration continues to be a work in progress (already, some minor errors have been spotted :) ) so feedback is certainly welcome. Cc'ing the Crossbow team in case the figure could be expanded and utilized for their purposes. Raoul Peter Memishian wrote: > Folks, > > As Seb mentioned a few posts ago, one of Sun's illustrators has put > together a first cut at some graphics that show how devices, links, and > interfaces interrelate. One of the more comprehensive illustrations is: > > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/clearview/cv-linkif.gif > > I really like how it clarifies the relationships between the various > layers (hardware, device instances, links, and IP interfaces). It's also > interesting to think of how this figure could be expanded to accommodate > the Crossbow concepts :-) >
