10G link properties [PSARC/2009/206 Self Review]

[Peter Memishian]

 > I guess some assessment needs to be made of how much scripting users are 
 > likely to have done based on the current set of linkprops. The current 
 > names were clearly chosen to be consistent with stats. and older 
 > drivers' ndd tunables. I think there is some merit in a newer scheme as 
 > you suggest, but consistency with older names/tools is clearly a good thing.

New tools like dladm (and the release taxonomy for OpenSolaris) give us an
opportunity to revisit previous decisions and hopefully come up with
better solutions.  I agree we need to do so carefully and there are pros
and cons to both approaches; the intent of my earlier mail was to set
expectations that the ground may be shifting in this space soon.

-- 
meem