Vivek, > Thanks for your response. My main concern is that > we are looking to embark on a project that needs > pfhooks like capability and I need to make a > decision on whether I can wait for pfhooks > implementation or should I write a STREAMS module.. > For this reason, I was fishing for some kind of > availability date that might help me make that > decision.
My advice would be to proceed in developing a STREAMS module but to structure your development such that there is a clean seperation between the code that must interact with the STREAMS infrastructure and that which deals with each individual packet. The only unfortunate part is that there is some throwaway work in developing the STREAMS code, as well as some new code to write (or changes to make) to interact with pfhooks, when it comes time to migrate your solution. At present all of the other primitives that you'll need to be cogniscent of (MP safe, copymsg, message structure, etc) will still hold true when it comes time to use pfhooks, so you won't lose any time or investment there. I will, however, look at what we can publish via opensolaris.org in the short term so that people like yourselves can have access to our workspaces in advance but with the knowledge that until it ends up in a Solaris update, it is open to change. Darren This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
