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

[Darren Reed]

Garrett D'Amore wrote:

> ...
> Darren, you were the one that raised the concern about possible 
> differences between libdlpi and actually using dlpi directly.  Can you 
> elaborate any further on that?  Is the issue that some interfaces 
> won't be available using certain names via pure DLPI?  (Is this just 
> because of /dev/net versus /dev from Clearview?  Perhaps libnet can be 
> made to understand to search in /dev/net first.  That is probably a 
> much smaller effort than converting to use libdlpi.)


Yes, /dev/net.

The correct way to interface with /dev/net should be via libdlpi.

Darren