On 09/09/08 00:47, Dale Ghent wrote:
On Sep 8, 2008, at 6:29 PM, Darren Reed wrote:
Today I finally got the changes documented in PSARC cases:
PSARC/2008/219 Committed API for packet interception
PSARC/2008/335 Corrections for Committed API for packet interception
PSARC/2008/557 Revision to net instance notification API
putback into OpenSolaris.
Excellent, Darren. Thanks!
These hooks could prove useful for the OpenAFS client driver which
currently occasionally polls a machine's interfaces at _init for their
MTUs and periodically afterwards for changes to those interfaces'
values. It's quite a hack, and has to tickle Private functions and
structs to get its job done.
The only catch would be that at present there's no notification
of a change in the MTU on a NIC via pfhooks - if you're doing
polls then it sounds like you need to be informed of such changes?
Or is the polling just to check for which NICs are present?
but on the other hand, how often does the MTU change after the
NIC is plumb'd and ready for action?
Cheers,
Darren
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