> On behalf of the RBridges team I am requesting feedback
> from the community on our plan to introduce support for
> simulated links in OpenSolaris. The document included
> in-line below introduces simlinks and is in the form of
> a PSARC fast-track document.
I like this proposal; it seems very clean and fits in well with the dladm
architecture. A few questions:
* I see this case is Committed, so I presume we planning to
document this construct in dladm(1M)? Or do we feel that's
not worthwhile?
* I'm a bit surprised by the "endpoint" terminology; it seems more
like a "peer" link to me. Or do we not require that two links
have symmetric endpoints? (e.g., if link A has endpoint B, must
link B have endpoint A? If so, I think "peer" would be a more
descriptive term.)
* Related to the previous question: must the other endpoint be a
simlink?
* Just a nit, but when I hear the word "simlink" I instantly think
of "symlink". Also, none of our other link classes have "link"
in the name.
* It seems like some of the stuff shown by show-simlink is only
due to deficiences with show-link. In particular, it's hard
to understand why show-link doesn't include the hardware address
and it should probably also have the media type.
--
meem
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