[brussels-dev] strange dladm show-ether output

[Sebastien Roy]

Sebastien Roy wrote:
> Sowmini.Varadhan at Sun.COM wrote:
>> If you try 
>> /net/trigati.east/export/build/sowmini/etherfix/usr/src/cmd/dladm/dladm
>> you'll see the fix in action.
> 
> That fixes the link state, but the duplex is still "u":
> 
> bash-3.2# ./dladm show-ether
> LINK            PTYPE    STATE    AUTO  SPEED-DUPLEX PAUSE
> bge0            current  up       no    1G-u                            
> none
> bge1            current  up       no    1G-u                            
> none

Ah, "u" stands for "unknown".  Any reason why we obfuscate this?  We 
could separate this into individual columns like this, no?

SPEED  DUPLEX   PAUSE
1G     unknown  none

As to why the duplex setting for my bge interfaces is "unknown", I have 
no idea.

-Seb