How does this compare to ways of doing link-level access on other platforms (either STREAMS or sockets model)?
That is, if I were porting link-level application code, this might simplify the Solaris-specific implementation, but it wouldn't eliminate the need for it, would it? Sure would be nice to have true AF_LINK socket support (assuming that's the most popular version of link-level access)... Now, perhaps for mere listening, existing freeware such as libpcap already does reasonably well at hiding platform differences. But that doesn't handle sending, let alone configuring, does it? Seems to me there ought to be something, whether AF_LINK sockets or a higher level abstraction, that does all those things across multiple platforms. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
