On 21 Nov 2007, at 6:36am, Peter Memishian wrote: >> It was previously adequate to examine mi_media for DL_ETHER if only >> ethernet devices should be supported. Now there are devices which >> present mi_media as DL_ETHER, yet they don't then supply ethernet >> frames (such devices have mi_nativemedia other than DL_ETHER). > > They should supply Ethernet frames unless the consumer issues a > DLIOCNATIVE.
Hmm. Well, that was very much not my experience when I encountered this at the time of the original posting (testing with an Intel 3945 wifi NIC). dme. -- David Edmondson, Solaris Engineering, http://dme.org
