On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 17:57 -0400, Kyle McDonald wrote:
> Sebastien Roy wrote:
> > I agree with that assertion.  The information Kyle is looking for
> > shouldn't be encoded in the IP interface name, but rather be verbosely
> > output by the NWAM notification popups.  Something akin to:
> >
> > "Took Ethernet interface net0 down."
> > or
> > "Brought Wireless interface net1 up, got address 10.0.245.248."
> >
> > This would be infinitely trivial to implement given that all of the
> > information is available via dladm and/or libdladm.  Perhaps we should
> > make it an AI for our team to make this NWAM change along with this
> > default naming change.
> >
> > What do folks think about this?
> >
> >   
> Works for me! +1
> 

Okay, I've filed the following CR to track this particular aspect of the
proposal:

6693549 NWAM popups should be more descriptive about network interfaces

http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6693549

(The above URL doesn't work yet as I just filed the bug minutes ago.
I'm sure it will be updated at some point soon.)

-Seb


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