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 _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
