In this series, I will report the bugs or problems I find when running the Oracle Solaris 11 Express distribution. I hope this will give more visibility on those PR to Oracle to correct them before the release of Solaris 11 next year.
Well, this one is not a really a bug per-se, but it is really annoying
nonetheless. The new interface where most network things are managed
through dladm and ipadm is really interesting because this leads to
a single point of management for the stack IP. Most things works pretty
well, unless setting the mode and speed of an interface, were we always
need to use the old ndd command, or the system kernel configuration
file, or set parameters in the specific interface configuration file, as
in old days on old Solaris releases.
Here is an example of such annoying behavior when hard setting a mode and speed for an interface is required:
# dladm show-link
LINK CLASS MTU STATE BRIDGE OVER
eri0 phys 1500 up -- --
# dladm show-phys
LINK MEDIA STATE SPEED DUPLEX DEVICE
eri0 Ethernet up 100 half eri0
# dladm show-linkprop -p duplex eri0
LINK PROPERTY PERM VALUE DEFAULT POSSIBLE
eri0 duplex r- full full half,full
As you can see, the auto-negotiation leads to an unusual 100Mbps half-duplex mode. And because the associated link property is read-only, the only way to put the link at 100Mbps full-duplex is to set it another way as before Solaris 11:
# ndd -set /dev/eri0 adv_100fdx_cap 1
# ndd -set /dev/eri0 adv_autoneg_cap 0
# cat << EOF >> /etc/system
set eri:adv_autoneg_cap=0
set eri:adv_100fdx_cap=1
set eri:adv_100hdx_cap=0
set eri:adv_10fdx_cap=0
set eri:adv_10hdx_cap=0
EOF
As I said previously it is not a bug, but is is really a pity it not possible to use the new way to set these parameters.