Jim Nissen writes:
No, asking simply because the Solaris tunables guide list both those TCP
settings that are changed via ndd and other that are /etc/system.
Customer's asking me if exclusive IP will allow for a NGZ to have its
own /etc/system TCP tunables, or if they are global.
/etc/system is still global because there's still only one system
kernel. That's the essence of zones.
/etc/system and ndd are unrelated, which is what confused me here.
Except for a few cases where there are mirrored bits (and likely
things that are actually bugs), you can't set ndd variables in
/etc/system, and you can't set /etc/system variables via ndd, and this
is by design.
/etc/system works by scribbling on top of kernel storage named by
symbols in the object files. It's essentially equivalent to /W in
mdb during the boot process -- you're writing directly to a variable,
and perhaps even one that's declared static by the original author.
ndd is more programmatic. It opens the named device node (e.g,
/dev/tcp) and issues an undocumented ioctl. The driver (and any
STREAMS modules in between) then gets the ioctl and can decide to do
anything it wants with it. Sometimes, it sets a variable somewhere,
or perhaps modifies multiple variables. Other ndd ioctls cause other
functions to be called, locks to be taken, and other work done.
Unlike /etc/system, the possibilities are endless.
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