Chapter 2 administering a single interface
1. the introduction section
"however, use of the ifconfig command remains a valid method to
configure links"
What does this mean?
The intention is to affirm that the changes introduced by project
Clearview in general are backward compatible. I will rephrase to make it
clearer.
Sure.
4. Section "how to replace a network card while using l
ink names"
4a. Step 4,5,6 are not clear to me. Do you mean to use DR to remove
and insert network card? How to perform step 5?
This task is also building on existing doc which has a section on
replacing a network card. It wasn't clear in that doc either whether DR
is being used here or not. See more comments on 6a.
Then I guess we need to figure the intention of the original document. The
current document is not very clear.
6. Section "Using link names in other applications"
6a. "Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR) can only be performed on system that
support this feature, and all of these systems are servers."
This is not true. Some wireless card can support DR. We've verified on
some laptops.
The information was provided to me by a writer who manages hardware
documentation. It's for this reason that I also maintained that separate
section about replacing network cards separately (Section 4) from this
section because I thought that DR is a different operation altogether.
My understanding about DR is that, if it is supported, one can make
hardware swaps without any downtime for the machine. So there are
laptops that can do this as well? I'll look into DR more and then revise
the doc.
Yes. Actually Joanna even tried to test DR on laptops. As it is more
available than DR capable servers.
10. Section "Configuring VLANs"
10a. After the Clearview project, *all* interface types should support
VLAN, except some of them might have the restriction described in
section 6.1.4 of the UV design document.
Ok. The list is also from current S10 docs. I had sent out an inquiry to
the team previously about what to do with lists such as what supports
VLAN, or link aggregations, or IPMP. Based on responses to that inquiry,
it seems safe to remove such lists when clearview is integrated.
Sure.
- Cathy
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