[email protected] wrote: > 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?
Yes it does but the driver doesn't use many of them internally though. > 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.) Yes it should be possible to instrument the driver to handle public properties as one would like for testing. I would expect such support to be added by project teams though to suit their own testing needs. Rishi _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
