Nice proposal!

> Simlinks are expected to be used during network software development and
> testing on  OpenSolaris. To encourage  use of simlinks for  testing this
> case proposes  project teams introduce new  private data-link properties
> in  the simlink  driver that  modify or  control the  response from  the
> device to administrative action.

Will the simlink driver support public properties for ethernet/wifi?

One nice feature would be if it would do something reasonable for
popular public properties like mtu, so that our test suites can be
used to test property handling through various permutations of
vlan/vnic/etc. combinations. Frequently the test machines available
when running these tests do not have the hardware support for some
of these features. Also in this vein, it would be nice to be able
to configure the simlink driver to simulate different types of hardware
(e.g., set it up in 10G mode, no-jumboframe mode etc.)

--Sowmini


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