Re: Extra DLT types required for opensolaris DLPI DL

[Darren Reed <Darren.Reed () Sun COM>]

On 29/03/09 11:11 PM, 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;
>
>     implementing that by having BPF turn on DL_IOC_IPNET_INFO for 
> DL_IPNET devices.

Which isn't how BPF selects which link layer type to use for packet capture.

But it isn't really a concern: there's never been a way to intercept 
loopback packets for Solaris, so there is no history to play nice to. I 
suppose the only question really is if "lo0" should also have a DLT_NULL 
in addition to DLT_something_else, and have DLT_NULL be the default like 
it is elsewhere.


> (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?)

If you download the latest Solaris Express Community Edition, you will 
find it.
The latest DVD image to install can be grabbed here:
https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_SMI-Site/en_US/-/USD/ViewProductDetail-Start?ProductRef=Sol-Express_b110-SEG-x86-SP-G-B@CDS-CDS_SMI
If you want OpenSolaris, then you can get that here via bittorrent:
http://dlc.sun.com/torrents/info/osol-0811.iso.torrent
More info here:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/

Darren

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