BPF on Solaris?

[David W. Hankins]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 08:51:51AM -0700, Ted Lemon wrote:
> The reason that DLPI is used on Solaris is that when the work was  
> done, there was no BPF support on Solaris.   If there is now BPF  
> support on Solaris, it might well be preferable to use that, although  
> in fact it would be better to just write some code to do interface  
> binding (similar to Linux SO_BINDTODEVICE), which is now supported in  
> Solaris and goes through the regular BSD stack, meaning that you  
> don't have to understand the raw packet framing to make it work.

There's been recent discussion about Windows client and DHCP server
interaction on the dhcp-server mailing list.

Unless you're aware of some way that a BSD socket can determine if
the packet it just read off the socket was unicast or broadcast, I
don't think stepping away from BPF/DLPI is a wise move just yet.

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