Paul Durrant wrote: > Once Nemo becomes the one true driver interface then you should also > be able to dispense with DLPI between IP and Nemo completely and plumb > by making calls directly from IP into DLS. This was one of my original > intentions for the future of DLS.
This becomes a more attainable goal with Clearview Nemo Unification as every datalink interface will be a Nemo datalink interface (at least all those with associated MAC-Type plugins.) That said, there are some things that Nemo doesn't do today that would prevent its replacing DLPI. The DL_NOTIFY_* and DL_CAPABILITY_* mechanisms are two I'm thinking of, and there may be others. There are equivalents at the Nemo MAC-layer, but nothing at the link-layer. Making Nemo ubiquitous is only part of the problem that needs to be solved to push DLPI out of this particular scene. -Seb _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
