On Mar 8, 2009, at 4:27 AM, Dale Ghent wrote:
On Mar 7, 2009, at 4:54 PM, Jason King wrote:
Since the ball has already started to roll on this, I'd like to
'officially' ask for feedback on my current proposed design for link
layer discovery support (specifically LLDP -- possibly in the future
other protocols such as CDP or EDP can be added in). The current
documentation can be seen at
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/lld/design
Huzzah! Awesome work, Jason.
I was reading over the Operation document and the paragraph
describing what will populate the System Description TLV and a
thought occurred to me.
One of the components you're using to populate this TLV is
SI_PLATFORM from sysinfo. On SPARC boxen, this will produce a string
akin to "SUNW,Ultra-4" or "SUNW,Sun_Fire_T200" and so on. However,
on x86, this will always be "i386". I think that can be improved.
Err, blame the hour/DST change. On x86, this is "i86pc", not "i386" :)
Not that it changes the point I'm trying to make :)
You may want to consider hooking into libsmbios on x86 to gain use
of the SMB_TYPE_SYSTEM array which contains a product string not too
dissimilar than what you'd get with SI_PLATFORM on Sun SPARC boxes.
For example, this could produce "Sun Fire X4140" or "PowerEdge 1950"
and so on, and be a bit more informative than the generic and rather
vague "i386" that you'd normally get on x86 using SI_PLATFORM.
Peruse the output of smbios(1M) if you think anything from a x86
box's SMBIOS might be useful. libsmbios is where prtdiag(1M) on x86
boxes gets its output.
/dale
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