[brussels-dev] [sysadmin-discuss] Brussels GUI prototype and requesting feedback

[Dale Ghent]

On Nov 8, 2007, at 6:39 PM, sowmini.varadhan at sun.com wrote:

> 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

That shouldn't mean that capability in the GUI to specify a arbitrary  
MTU should be removed. Even MacOS X allows one to do this in the  
Network preference pane, which is its analog to this.

One other thing aside from MTU - capabilities of specific chipsets out  
there range widely, even within the same product family (eg, BCM  
NetXtreme 56xx/57xx). It would be nice if dladm and the GUI provided a  
run down of what the driver will do for a respective chipset so as to  
answer admin's questions such as "Does my NIC support jumbo frames?",  
"Can it do VLAN tagging?", "Can it do 802.3ad?", "Does it sport a  
TOE?" It would be very nice if dladm and the GUI could provide this  
information easily since the first step in setting a property is  
knowing if you're capable of doing it in the first place.

/dale