Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> Steven Stallion wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> What is the expected contents of an mblk_t which is passed to mac_rx ? I
>> would have assumed it would be the destination address, source address,
>> and payload - however snoop does not seem to be showing these packets.
>>
>> For example:
>>
>> mblk_t *bp = allocb(len, 0);
>>
>> /* src contains a 6 byte dest addr,
>>    a 6 byte source addr, and the payload */
>> bcopy(src, bp->b_rptr, len);
>>
>> mac_rx(mac_handle, NULL, bp);
>>
>> ...
>>
>> snoop -d re0 shows no packets received (I have verified that promisc is
>> working correctly; the packets are being accepted by the rx filters, and
>> is being passed down to mac_rx).
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>>   
> The above code is missing an important step, which is to advance the
> b_wptr by len bytes.
> 
>    -- Garrett

Hmm. I suppose I would have expected b_wptr to not be used for mblk_t's
delivered to mac_ether; is this step just to avoid corruption by wayward
users of the mblk?

-- 
Yet magic and hierarchy
arise from the same source,
and this source has a null pointer.

Reference the NULL within NULL,
it is the gateway to all wizardry.
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