On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Darren Reed <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Looking through the networking code, it is hard to tell if
> Open/Solaris supports doing an explicit bind to a SAP that
> refers directly to either 802.2 or 802.3. Am I missing
> something?
>
> If it is true that we don't and we were to support that,
> what values would be appropriate?
>
> The reasoning behind these questions is that I'm trying to
> make sense of what it would mean to create a socket like
> this on Open/Solaris:
>
> fd = socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, ETH_P_802_2);
>
> or
>
>
> fd = socket(PF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, ETH_P_802_3);
>
> Of course it may be that it just doesn't make sense on
> Open/Solaris but I'm curious to know what others thing.

I don't believe it does -- the best you can do is bind to SAP 0, then
push the pfil module configured to pass the desired packets through.
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