What's New With Configuring Network Interface Card Drivers

In this release, configuration of properties of the NIC driver is performed by using the dladm command. This command allows you to configure the properties dynamically without causing any network disruption on other NICs of similar types. The values that you set are stored into a dladm repository and therefore persist even after you reboot the system or unplumb the interface.

A Driver Configuration Framework (GLDv3) is implemented in this release. If used when you configure drivers, this framework provides the following benefits:

• Only single command interface, dladm, is needed to configure network driver properties.

• A uniform syntax is used regardless of the properties: dladm subcommand properties data-link.

• Use of the dladm command applies to both public and private properties of the driver.

• Using the dladm command on a specific driver does not disrupt other network connections.