On Sep 8, 2011, at 4:35 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 10:55 +0200, Vlad Galu wrote: >> On Sep 8, 2011, at 10:11 AM, Takuya ASADA wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> 2011/9/5 Ben Hutchings <bhutchi...@solarflare.com>: >>>> On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 15:51 +0900, Takuya ASADA wrote: >>>> [...] >>>> >>>> Linux also has a generic interface to RX filtering and hashing >>>> (ethtool_rxnfc) which ixgbe supports; wouldn't it be better for FreeBSD >>>> to support something like that? >>>> >>>> Ben. >>> >>> Linux implement it on ethtool command, what should we do? >>> Maybe a new option for ifconfig, or provide new command for it? >> >> I for one would love to see this functionality built into ifconfig. >> Linux always seems to have one tool too many. There's ifconfig, >> iproute2, route, mii-tool and ethtool. > > The current tools are iproute2 (replacing ifconfig and route) and > ethtool. mii-tool might still be useful for debugging a 10M or 100M > driver, but ethtool can display anything an administrator would be > interested in. > > Now you could quite reasonably say that the improvements made in > iproute2 ought to have been done without creating a new command. But it > is not true that all these different commands are required. > > Ben.
You're right, I didn't mean that, only that, sometimes, diversity isn't necessarily a good thing. _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
