2008/352 IS-IS For OpenSolaris

2008-06-04 Thread James Carlson
This fast-track request was approved during ARC business today. A final version of the specification (including the /dev/net/ scan for Clearview UV compatibility) is located in the case directory as 'spec.txt'. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Driv

2008/352 IS-IS For OpenSolaris

2008-06-02 Thread James Carlson
Nicolas Williams writes: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 10:01:28AM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > > I don't think it would. We'd end up with multiple versions of that > > library delivered (one through quagga.net and the other through ON), > > and all the problems that causes. We'd be hard-pressed to k

2008/352 IS-IS For OpenSolaris

2008-06-02 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 12:08:49PM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > Nicolas Williams writes: > > On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 10:01:28AM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > > > I don't think it would. We'd end up with multiple versions of that > > > library delivered (one through quagga.net and the other throug

2008/352 IS-IS For OpenSolaris

2008-06-02 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 10:01:28AM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > Nicolas Williams writes: > > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 05:37:14PM -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote: > > > How does the daemon decide whether to open DLPI devices out of /dev/net > > > on some versions of Solaris, but out of /dev on others? >

2008/352 IS-IS For OpenSolaris

2008-06-02 Thread James Carlson
Sebastien Roy writes: > > As for versions, they just > > don't matter. If you can open a node /dev/net/, then it must already > > exist, which means that the platform you're running on (whatever it > > is) supports /dev/net/. There's no reason I can see to make this > > conditional on version. I

2008/352 IS-IS For OpenSolaris

2008-06-02 Thread Sebastien Roy
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 10:01 -0400, James Carlson wrote: > Sebastien Roy writes: > > On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 17:05 -0400, James Carlson wrote: > > > IS-IS uses ISO datagrams, and thus requires raw network access. > > > Because we're delivering the source upstream to quagga.net, which > > > comp

2008/352 IS-IS For OpenSolaris

2008-06-02 Thread James Carlson
Sebastien Roy writes: > On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 17:05 -0400, James Carlson wrote: > > IS-IS uses ISO datagrams, and thus requires raw network access. > > Because we're delivering the source upstream to quagga.net, which > > compiles on many older Sun platforms, we use standard DLPIv2 rather > >

2008/352 IS-IS For OpenSolaris

2008-05-30 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 05:37:14PM -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote: > On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 17:05 -0400, James Carlson wrote: > > IS-IS uses ISO datagrams, and thus requires raw network access. > > Because we're delivering the source upstream to quagga.net, which > > compiles on many older Sun pla

2008/352 IS-IS For OpenSolaris

2008-05-30 Thread Sebastien Roy
On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 17:05 -0400, James Carlson wrote: > IS-IS uses ISO datagrams, and thus requires raw network access. > Because we're delivering the source upstream to quagga.net, which > compiles on many older Sun platforms, we use standard DLPIv2 rather > than the newer OpenSolaris li

2008/352 IS-IS For OpenSolaris

2008-05-30 Thread James Carlson
I'm sponsoring this open exposure fast-track for Jingjing Duan and myself. The timer is set to 06/06/2008. Background "Zebra Routing Suite" (PSARC 2004/448) originally added Zebra to Solaris, delivering through SFW and /usr/sfw. This was then replaced by Quagga (a Zebra branch) with "SFWQ