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 - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
