2009/200 Solaris Simlinks

[James Carlson]

Andrew Gabriel writes:
> Maybe doesn't much help this case, but I'll just mention that back in 
> Solaris 2.5 era, I used to create a DLPI provider as a user-land 
> process, which I plumbed by means of creating a pipe and plumbing one 
> side of it under IP. Then you see all the DLPI primitives on the other 
> side of the pipe, and can generate appropriate DLPI replies. You ended 
> up with a funny link name which i can't now recall, but otherwise it 
> seemed to worked fine. (It was mainly used in my case for a test suite 
> for ISO TP4 over ethernet, rather than IP.)
> 
> It may well be that with various revamps of network drivers/stacks since 
> Solaris 2.5, this is no longer works, or is not useful for the purpose 
> you intend, but I mention it on the off-chance it might be.

That should still sort-of work, but it falls apart if you want to have
any of the new ioctls supported.

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