Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 16:38:46 +0200 From: Vlad Galu <dudu@dudu.ro> To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Cc: Takuya ASADA <syuu@dokukino.com>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding Flow Director sysctls to ixgbe(4) Message-ID: <F8F83D2B-32F9-484F-A06E-0A1664601CC3@dudu.ro> In-Reply-To: <1315492556.23168.45.camel@deadeye> References: <CALG4x-W99OZxd=1ZDvW4=MBqeE3RPOazc7jc_3O30X-Pou3k8Q@mail.gmail.com> <1315221674.3092.282.camel@deadeye> <CALG4x-UYy-zUir%2Bqz37mm6D4Eo_cAErSPMZMx5ScvyfPiN4zfw@mail.gmail.com> <ADC8BD0D-6AC2-4D15-B8C3-FC2F244D8051@dudu.ro> <1315492556.23168.45.camel@deadeye>
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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, >>>=20 >>> 2011/9/5 Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>: >>>> On Mon, 2011-09-05 at 15:51 +0900, Takuya ASADA wrote: >>>> [...] >>>>=20 >>>> 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? >>>>=20 >>>> Ben. >>>=20 >>> Linux implement it on ethtool command, what should we do? >>> Maybe a new option for ifconfig, or provide new command for it? >>=20 >> 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Ben. You're right, I didn't mean that, only that, sometimes, diversity isn't = necessarily a good thing.
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