Re: Extra DLT types required for opensolaris DLPI DL

[Sebastien Roy <Sebastien.Roy () Sun COM>]

On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 23:11 -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Mar 29, 2009, at 10:59 PM, Darren Reed wrote:
>
> > What I am considering is:
>
> And what Sebastien is suggesting is, I think:
>
>       using the DL_IPNET link-layer header for loopback devices, as  
> documented in the loopback device man page, in your Solaris BPF,  
> rather than inventing a new header;

Correct; I'm not suggesting that BPF use DLPI under the hood at all,
simply that the two implementations could share a common header format.
This only makes too much sense to me.

>       implementing that by having BPF turn on DL_IOC_IPNET_INFO for  
> DL_IPNET devices.

This is less relevant, I think.  Darren may very well implement BPF in
such a way that it doesn't interact with any DLPI infrastructure, which
is fine.

> (Sebastien, is that man page available to people *not* working at  
> Sun?  For that matter, are binary builds of the current state of  
> Solaris 11/OpenSolaris available to people not working at Sun, to, for  
> example, install on VMware virtual machines?)

All of this is available in the open, yes.  OpenSolaris is available to
anyone on the planet.  You can download and install a live CD image
here:

http://www.opensolaris.com/

Bi-weekly development builds are available publicly via the development
package repository at http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev/.  Man pages are
included in these builds.

In addition, Sun keeps current copies of man pages at docs.sun.com
available for the public.  For example, the ipnet(7P)/lo0(7P) man page I
was referring to is available at:

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2254/ipnet-7d?a=view

-Seb


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