Artem Kachitchkine writes:
> nv_68-based brussels-gate, ferrari laptop:
> 
> # time dladm show-linkprop lo0
> dladm: warning: cannot open lo0: DLPI operation timed out
> 
> real    0m10.021s

Gotcha!

On BFU'd systems (only), there's a /dev/lo device.  That node is most
definitely not DLPI -- it's a STREAMS SVr4 test driver used for the
validation (SVVS) suite.  It's not related to networking at all.

The DLPI library doesn't realize that this node is spurious, and it
tries to open it and talk to it as though it were a DLPI Style 2
driver ... and it times out when it doesn't respond.

10 seconds seems a bit extreme for a timeout here, but in any event,
the library in use here should probably be a bit smarter, and should
avoid trying to talk to the SVVS driver at all.

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