On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 12:05 -0400, James Carlson wrote: > [email protected] writes: > > the actual link layer info itself is stored in the mac_impl_t itself. > > It's not clear to me why DLDIOC_MACADDRGET has to be a privileged > > operation. Perhaps someone on Crossbow can clarify? > > We've discussed this before ... > > https://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=365727 > > The Crossbow folks were imitating 'ifconfig', but at least Seb and I > think it's actually a Crossbow bug.
Indeed, and I had filed a bug on this: 6828436 DLDIOC_MACADDRGET shouldn't require any privileges The fix is quite trivial, but this is only a pre-requisite to a Public API function that allows unprivileged access to interface MAC addresses. The ioctl itself is some form of Private. -Seb _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
