On Mon, 9 Sept 2024 at 10:51, <will...@welliver.org> wrote: > I've been working on adding a flag to the dladm create-simnet. While > completing that work, it's been noted that the simnet functionality > isn't really documented anywhere you'd expect to find it. I've found > simnets useful on a few occasions and think more people might as well, > if it were more easily discoverable.
Agreed! > I'm not familiar with any background that may explain the omission, > perhaps a desire to not make an ongoing commitment to the feature, or a > feeling that it's only useful to a very niche audience? There are few > references to simnet outside the code that implements them, the most > definitive being the feature proposal: > > https://www.mail-archive.com/opensolaris-arc@mail.opensolaris.org/msg09920.html > > Is there a particular reason the feature is well hidden, and would there > be opposition to adding information to the dladm man page and command > help text? I am willing to do the legwork to get the information added. I think, in general, at Sun, lots of things like simnet that were engineering tools without strong promises around them were kept from the immediate notice of customers by omission from the manual and so on. I don't think there's any reason for them not to be documented at this point, though! I believe we make somewhat heavy use of simnet links at Oxide as part of Falcon, a network topology virtualisation testing tool: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/falcon Thanks for working on it! Let us know if you hit any bumps or need additional guidance, etc. Cheers. -- Joshua M. Clulow http://blog.sysmgr.org ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Td3aab6b1faed1e6f-M90fd60fb2632206b5f2b41c1 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
