[brussels-dev] [driver-discuss] [networking-discuss] pausel bits setting within Solaris

[sowmini.varadhan at sun.com]

On (07/27/07 10:06), Joost Mulders wrote:
> The current goal for brussels is to unfiy link administration for  
> NIC's. If you want to *simplify* administration, my first bet would  
> be to allow string value's for properties in dladm.

there are no restrictions that the entered value must be numerical.
Even for existing values (e.g., setting adv_autoneg_cap) there is
no constraint that we should only take 0,1 because of existing syntax-
we could well take all of the following input: 0, "off", 1, "on".

--Sowmini