libnet [PSARC/2008/409 FastTrack timeout 07/03/2008]

[Daria Mehra]

Darren Reed wrote:
> My concern is that in future we will ship a libpcap that is based
> on libdlpi and that thus it may work with a different set of interface
> names than does libnet, possibly leading to application failure
> because interface "foo0" works with libpcap and not libnet.
>
> I'm afraid that integrating libnet, as is, would be a bug (in more
> ways than one) if it were to use DLPI directly rather than libdlpi.

If porting of libpcap to use libdlpi is a future project, shouldn't the 
same project include updating libnet, so it is done at the same time? I 
read your comment to mean that today's version of libpcap (0.9.8) is 
using DLPI directly, just like libnet. Since the two libraries are often 
used together, it seems sensible to keep them in lockstep with respect 
to DLPI/libdlpi support.

-- daria