[OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS performance issues

James Carlson carlsonj at workingcode.com
Thu Jan 26 13:05:10 UTC 2012


Open Indiana wrote:
> Please skip the whole ifconfig and plumb this or that discussion.
> 
> Virtualbox works on any interface that is "plumbed" since only then the
> interface is visible in the menu.

Oh, yuck.  It should be using the libdlpi interfaces (see
dlpi_walk(3DLPI)), at least on OpenIndiana.

If portability to older Solaris systems is necessary, it should be
enumerating DLPI interfaces using libdevinfo.

Piggybacking on IP isn't right at all.

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James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <carlsonj at workingcode.com>



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