2009/200 Solaris Simlinks

[Andrew Gabriel]

James Carlson wrote:
> I'm sponsoring this fast-track request for Rishi Srivatsavai.  The
> timer is set to 04/02/2009.
> 
> 
> This project introduces simlinks  with stability level of Uncommitted,
> the private data-link properties  for simlinks are Project Private and
> the release binding is Minor.

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.

-- 
Andrew