I've finally gotten around to making a little progress on the project ( http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/lld ).
I've updated the initial design page to try to better match the output of other dladm commands with some more thoughts and comments. Nothing huge, but any comments if I'm on the right track or not, or other suggestions are welcome. I've also uploaded some code to a mercurial repo ( ssh://hg.opensolaris.org/hg/lld/lld-proto -- hopefully this works for people). This is _extremely_ rough and a bit ugly. It's intention is really just to allow me to play around with things a bit to get a better feel for any issues with decoding & representing the PDUs. Right now it includes a utility testpkt that can be built. It runs on pcap formatted files (ethernet only) and tries to parse any LLDP packets it finds (just dumping an nvlist). Some sample captures can be downloaded from http://wiki.wireshark.org/LinkLayerDiscoveryProtocol?action=show&redirect=LLDP to be used with it. Since I don't have a managed switch available, it's all I can do at the moment. Right now, I'm planning to extend the code that's there a bit so that it can listen + spit out and discovery PDUs it receives. After that, hopefully I'll have a comfortable enough grasp on the problem that it might be more appropriate to discuss engaging the various processess that lead to an eventual integration into a consolidation. I should state again that this code is only a prototype (and even that's being generous). Just something to play around with and to flush out additional ideas. _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
