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Subject: Re: Adding Flow Director sysctls to ixgbe(4)
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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.