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

[James Carlson]

Peter Memishian writes:
> 
>  > 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.

By "release taxonomy," I'm guessing that you're referring to the
release binding for OpenSolaris.  Do we actually have a release
binding for it yet?  Is it a major release?  What does "uname -r" say?

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