Re: solaris loopback

[Guy Harris <guy () netapp com>]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:47:34PM -0500, Andrew Brown wrote:
> i tried this once, a few years back, and gave up.  interestingly,
> before i gave up, i tried all the other character devices with the
> same major number as /dev/hme (/dev/le, /dev/ip, /dev/rawip, etc)

Those might be clone devices, in which case the major number is that of
the "clone device" and the minor number is, if I correctly remember the
STREAMS clone device code from when I last looked at it in the late
1980's/early 1990's, the major device number of the device being cloned.

> and found that using /dev/sp (aka running tcpdump -isp0) will make the
> kernel panic.

Well, that's a bit gross; even if the device *isn't* a DLPI device it
should fail more gracefully.
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