Remember the good old days when you had to use ndd to know whether network interfaces on your machine negotiated the bandwidth and duplex settings correctly? And to make matters worse some interfaces would have slightly different ndd getters to obtain that information, which was fairly frustrating sometimes. Well, it’s been a long time coming, but with Solaris 10 you don’t have to that any more. A new fangled dladm utility takes care of abstracting the details of underlying network interface driver and can obtain the details of available network interfaces in a rather simple but quite useful format, all you have to do is invoke dladm with “show-dev” parameter (as on one of my systems):
# dladm show-dev bge0 link: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full bge1 link: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full bge2 link: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full bge3 link: unknown speed: 0 Mbps duplex: unknown