On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 08:59:56AM -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
> At 11:24 PM 3/19/2005, David Young wrote:
> >On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 02:04:26PM -0500, Dheeraj S wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >>    Is is possible to create sockets in the AF_LINK/PF_LINK family ?
> >> for example,
> >>         socket(PF_LINK, SOCK_DGRAM/SOCK_RAW, 0).
> >
> >Not yet.  It is a very desirable feature, to me.  Do you think you will
> >send a patch?
> 
> Ummm, that's why there is bpf(4).  Prior art in this area would be
> AF_DLI from Tru64/ULTRIX.

bpf(4) is equivalent to socket(,SOCK_RAW,).  socket(,SOCK_DGRAM,) is
what I'm after.  I want a socket that I can bind to a data link address
and use sendto/recvfrom with.  This makes it ~trivial to adapt a network
app that operates over PF_INET/PF_INET4 to use PF_LINK.

Dave 

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