April 1998
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
16h 11m
English
book
Sun Performance and Tuning: Java™ and the Internet, Second Edition
by Adrian Cockcroft, Richard Pettit
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The Network Device Driver Interface
The Network Device Driver (NDD) interface gets and sets tunable parameters that control drivers, specifically, the network stack drivers. These drivers include the IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, and ARP drivers, and network interfaces such as hme.
In previous versions of Unix, including SunOS, the variables that were available for tuning were not clearly defined, and modifying them was a complex task of installing adb commands in system boot files. With the NDD interface comes the ndd command for interacting with the drivers and viewing and setting the available variables. This command must also be placed in system boot files for modifying the driver parameters upon boot but is more user friendly than adb.
The programming ...