Adding Flow Director sysctls to ixgbe(4)

[Vlad Galu]

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 <bhutchings at 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.