[brussels-dev] Brussels GUI prototype and requesting feedback

[Darren Reed]

Sowmini.Varadhan at Sun.COM wrote:

>On (11/08/07 15:04), Darren Reed wrote:
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>>On the MTU page, there needs to be the ability to enter in
>>an arbitrary MTU that is between 0 and MAX.
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>
>Actually the feedback we got from the driver and sys-admin
>community  is exactly the opposite. Their feedback (see
>http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=42078&tstart=15)
>suggest that users are frequently confused about what mtu
>to use (some machines make an adjustment for layer 2 headers,
>some dont) so providing a "standard" and "jumbo" option
>in a gui is in the spirit of simplification (custom mtu
>can always be achieved via the cli).
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>

That would be fine too - the current format which
has a "default" and "MAX" is just weird.

But, but....if I modify the MTU to be 4123 using the
CLI, how will the GUI represent that?

Darren