[brussels-dev] displaying mac address with dladm

[Peter Memishian]

 > The question that then came up is what sub-command to
 > use for displaying this information.
 > 
 > One candidatate is the show-ether (also show-wifi, since, as Garrett
 > pointed out, the mac address applies to all 802 networks).

Given that aggregations also mac addresses, tunnels have endpoint
addresses, and VNICs will have mac addresses, I think the picture
is even muddier.  Maybe show-link should show the mac address (which
for e.g. VLANs would just be the mac address of the underlying link)?

 > so we could have:
 > 
 > # dladm show-ether    
 > LINK            PTYPE    STATE    AUTO  SPEED-DUPLEX  PAUSE  ADDRESS
 > bge0            current  up       yes   1G-f          bi     X:X:X:X:X:X
 > bge1            current  up       yes   1G-f          bi     Y:Y:Y:Y:Y:Y
 > 
 > # dladm show-wif
 > LINK       STATUS            ESSID               SEC    STRENGTH   MODE   SPEED  ADDRESS
 > wpi0       connected         Radio Kebe          wep    very good  g      54Mb   X:X:X:X:X:X
 > 
 > (both of which are likely to spill beyond 80 columns), or, we could
 > add this to the show-phys command
 > 
 > # dladm show-phys      
 > LINK         MEDIA                STATE      SPEED DUPLEX   DEVICE ADDRESS
 > bge0         Ethernet             up         1000  full      bge0  X:X:X:X:X:X
 > 
 > Any preferences?

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