[crossbow-discuss] default priority

[Girish Moodalbail]

On 12/01/08 16:50, Peter Memishian wrote:
>  > > What 'priority' has the whole tcp/ip traffic which is not marked with 'flowadm'?
>  > > Is it marked as 'medium'?
>  > >   
>  > If you don't have any flows configured on an interface then the priority 
>  > for that link would be by default *high* (and hence the packets 
>  > received/transmitted by the interface).
>  > 
>  > bash-3.2# dladm show-linkprop e1000g0 | egrep "(priority|LINK)"
>  > LINK         PROPERTY        VALUE          DEFAULT        POSSIBLE
>  > e1000g0      priority        --             High           Low,Medium,High
>
> If the default is "high", why isn't the value shown as "high"?  If the
> intent is to show that the default is being used, then we should invent a
> syntax to do that, rather than overload "--" (which for some properties is
> itself a valid value that may have been explicitly chosen by the admin).
> (Also, what's with the capitalization?  I don't recall this for any
> existing link properties.)
>   
Correct, the possible values shouldn't be capitalized to be consistent 
with other link properties. Further the default value needs to be 
reiterated under the *VALUE* column like all other link properties. I 
will open a P4 CR to track this.

thanks
~Girish