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DLPI/Ethernet Question

Post by Ravi » Thu, 09 Mar 2000 04:00:00



Hi,
 Is there a general DLPI interface to configure an Ethernet
card so that all outgoing packets are also passed to the upper
layers? Or is this a hardware specific feature?
 (I guess you know where this is heading. I'm trying to capture
  Ethernet packets, but I'm only able to see incoming packets).

-Thanks,
 Ravi.

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DLPI/Ethernet Question

Post by Andrew Gabri » Thu, 09 Mar 2000 04:00:00




Quote:> Hi,
>  Is there a general DLPI interface to configure an Ethernet
> card so that all outgoing packets are also passed to the upper
> layers? Or is this a hardware specific feature?
>  (I guess you know where this is heading. I'm trying to capture
>   Ethernet packets, but I'm only able to see incoming packets).

You can try putting the interface into promiscuous mode with
DL_PROMISCON_REQ, but it varies from one unix to another
whether this causes frames you are transmitting to be
reflected back up your stream - certainly not all ethernet
DLPI drivers on all unixs do this.

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Andrew Gabriel
Consultant Software Engineer

 
 
 
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DLPI/Ethernet Question

Post by Simon Thorningto » Thu, 09 Mar 2000 04:00:00


I got this to work in Solaris.  I forget exactly how.  Get the "Ethernet
Tunnel" code from my website for an example.

http://www.hasc.com/~vir

I also have a DLPI spec there, dunno if it's current anymore.

Cheers,

Simon.




>>Hi,
>>Is there a general DLPI interface to configure an Ethernet
>>card so that all outgoing packets are also passed to the upper
>>layers? Or is this a hardware specific feature?
>>(I guess you know where this is heading. I'm trying to capture
>>Ethernet packets, but I'm only able to see incoming packets).
>You can try putting the interface into promiscuous mode with
>DL_PROMISCON_REQ, but it varies from one unix to another
>whether this causes frames you are transmitting to be
>reflected back up your stream - certainly not all ethernet
>DLPI drivers on all unixs do this.
>--
>Andrew Gabriel
>Consultant Software Engineer

 
 
 
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