2008/352 IS-IS For OpenSolaris

[Nicolas Williams]

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 05:37:14PM -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote:
> 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?

And wouldn't it be easier to contribute libdlpi to quagga.net rather
than avoid its use?