[brussels-dev] [networking-discuss] Brussels and ndd cleanup

[Brian Utterback]

Sowmini.Varadhan at Sun.COM wrote:

> 
> I suspect that Prakash is suggesting that there is a perception
> that 'ndd -set /dev/ip ip_debug 10' is somehow safer than 
> "echo 'ip_debug/W 0xa'|mdb -kw".

It is clearly safer to use ndd than "mdb -kw" in general. The ndd 
command gives you a limited set of variables to change with type 
checking and sanity checking. The mdb form allows you to write to any 
variable, with no sanity checking of the range and type. Getting the 
case wrong in the command could be a disaster. And I think that there 
is a presumption that the set variables provided by ndd are at least 
safe to change on a running system.

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blu

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