2008/352 IS-IS For OpenSolaris

Sebastien Roy Sebastien.Roy at Sun.COM
Fri May 30 14:37:14 PDT 2008


On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 17:05 -0400, James Carlson wrote:
>   IS-IS uses ISO datagrams, and thus requires raw network access.
>   Because we're delivering the source upstream to quagga.net, which
>   compiles on many older Sun platforms, we use standard DLPIv2 rather
>   than the newer OpenSolaris libdlpi convenience library.

How does the daemon decide whether to open DLPI devices out of /dev/net
on some versions of Solaris, but out of /dev on others?

-Seb





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