On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:44 AM, James Carlson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jason King writes:
>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Peter Memishian <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> > I'm a bit concerned about having multiple property universes.  Is there a
>> > technical issue with using the existing linkprop facility for holding the
>> > lldp properties (with an appropriate prefix for the properties to make it
>> > clear what they're for)?  Further, offhand it seems like the information
>> > shown by show-discovery-stats could be displayed by the existing
>> > "show-link -s" facility.
>>
>> One issue for the 'show-discovery-config' option (I'm assuming this is
>> what you're referring to vs. the peer data) is that there is both
>> global configuration items that cover all links (and would present
>> issues with things like the LLDP MIB if they were to be made per
>> link), and then items that are per link.  I think putting the per-link
>> stuff in with the linkprop stuff would be fine, but then what to do
>> about the global options?  Just leave them in SMF and provide no
>> separate way to manipulate them outside of svccfg / libscf?  Would
>> that be appropriate?
>
> I had exactly the same issue for the RBridges project: I put the
> per-link configuration bits into linkprop and the global bridge
> configuration into SMF, with some logic inside libdladm to hide the
> SCF interfaces.
>
> As far as the user can tell, it all comes from dladm.

How are the global pieces managed from dladm?
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