On (11/08/07 20:41), Darren Reed wrote: > More than a few people have argued against exposing the capabilities > of NICs and/or allowing users to change them...see below for what our > users actually *want* to do.
The approach that the related projects in this area seem to be heading towards is that we identify the "interesting" capabilities via properties, and use set/get linkprop to find the info that Dale is looking for. I do agree that we have to do some work to get this ability into the GUI. --Sowmini > From: Dale Ghent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > One other thing aside from MTU - capabilities of specific chipsets out > there range widely, even within the same product family (eg, BCM > NetXtreme 56xx/57xx). It would be nice if dladm and the GUI provided a > run down of what the driver will do for a respective chipset so as to > answer admin's questions such as "Does my NIC support jumbo frames?", > "Can it do VLAN tagging?", "Can it do 802.3ad?", "Does it sport a > TOE?" It would be very nice if dladm and the GUI could provide this > information easily since the first step in setting a property is > knowing if you're capable of doing it in the first place. > > /dale _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
