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#include <sys/dlpi.h>
SunOS STREAMS-based device drivers wishing to support the STREAMS TCP/IP and other STREAMS-based networking protocol suite implementations support Version 2 of the Data Link Provider Interface (DLPI). DLPI V2 enables a data link service user to access and use any of a variety of conforming data link service providers without special knowledge of the provider's protocol. Specifically, the interface is intended to support Ethernet, X.25 LAPB, SDLC, ISDN LAPD, CSMA/CD, FDDI, token ring, token bus, Bisync, and other datalink-level protocols.
The interface specifies access to the data link service provider in the form of M_PROTO and M_PCPROTO type STREAMS messages and does not define a specific protocol implementation. The interface defines the syntax and semantics of primitives exchanged between the data link user and the data link provider to attach a physical device with physical-level address to a stream, bind a datalink-level address to the stream, get implementation-specific information from the data link provider, exchange data with a peer data link user in one of three communication modes (connection, connectionless, acknowledged connectionless), enable/disable multicast group and promiscuous mode reception of datalink frames, get and set the physical address associated with a stream, and several other operations.
Solaris conforms to The Open Group Technical Standard for DLPI, Version 2. For free access to this specification, point your browser to www.opengroup.org/pubs/catalog/c811.htm. Solaris also provides extensions to the DLPI standard, as detailed in this man page.
Enables DLPI consumers to register for notification when events of interest occur at the DLPI provider. The negotiation can be performed on any attached DLPI stream, and begins with the DLPI consumer, sending a DL_NOTIFY_REQ to the provider, which is an M_PROTO message with the following payload:
typedef struct {
t_uscalar_t dl_primitive;
uint32_t dl_notifications;
uint32_t dl_timelimit;
} dl_notify_req_t;
The dl_primitive field must be set to DL_NOTIFY_REQ; the dl_timelimit field is
reserved for future use and must be set to zero. The dl_notifications field is
a bitmask containing the event types the consumer is interested in receiving,
and must be zero or more of:
DL_NOTE_LINK_DOWN Notify when link has gone down DL_NOTE_LINK_UP Notify when link has come up DL_NOTE_PHYS_ADDR Notify when address changes DL_NOTE_SDU_SIZE Notify when MTU changes DL_NOTE_SPEED Notify when speed changes DL_NOTE_PROMISC_ON_PHYS Notify when DL_PROMISC_PHYS is set DL_NOTE_PROMISC_OFF_PHYS Notify when DL_PROMISC_PHYS is clearedConsumers might find it useful to send a DL_NOTIFY_REQ message with no requested types to check if the DLPI provider supports the extension. Upon receiving the DL_NOTIFY_REQ, the DLPI provider must generate a DL_NOTIFY_ACK, which is an M_PROTO message with the following payload:
typedef struct {
t_uscalar_t dl_primitive;
uint32_t dl_notifications;
} dl_notify_ack_t;
The dl_primitive field must be set to DL_NOTIFY_ACK. The
dl_notifications field must include any notifications that the provider
supports, along with any other unrequested notifications that the provider
supports. However, regardless of the notifications the provider supports, it is
restricted to sending only DL_NOTIFY_IND messages (see below) that were
requested in the DL_NOTIFY_REQ.
Since there are additional notification types which are not yet available for
public use, DLPI consumers and providers must take care when inspecting
and setting the dl_notifications field. Specifically, consumers must be
careful to only request the above notification types, and providers must be
careful to not include any unrecognized notification types in the
dl_notifications field when constructing the DL_NOTIFY_ACK. In addition,
DL_NOTIFY_IND's that are received with undocumented dl_notification or dl_data
values must be ignored.
DLPI consumers might receive a DL_ERROR_ACK message (with dl_error_primitive
set to DL_NOTIFY_REQ) in response to the initial DL_NOTIFY_REQ message. This
message indicates that the DLPI provider does not support the DLPI notification
extension. Otherwise, the DLPI consumer receives a DL_NOTIFY_ACK and should
expect to receive DL_NOTIFY_IND messages for any types that it requested that
were still set in it. The DL_NOTIFY_IND is an M_PROTO message with the
following payload:
typedef struct {
t_uscalar_t dl_primitive;
uint32_t dl_notification;
uint32_t dl_data;
t_uscalar_t dl_addr_length;
t_uscalar_t dl_addr_offset;
} dl_notify_ind_t;
The dl_primitive field must be set to DL_NOTIFY_IND, and the
dl_notification field must be set to the event type that has occurred
(for example, DL_NOTE_LINK_DOWN). Only a single event type can be set in each
DL_NOTIFY_IND.
For the DL_NOTE_SPEED event type, dl_data must be set to the current
interface speed in kilobits per second. For the DL_NOTE_PHYS_ADDR event type,
dl_data must be set to DL_CURR_PHYS_ADDR. For the DL_NOTE_SDU_SIZE event type,
dl_data must be set to the current MTU in bytes. Otherwise, dl_data
must be set to zero.
For the DL_NOTE_PHYS_ADDR event type, the dl_addr_length field must be
set to the length of the address, and the dl_addr_offset field must be
set to offset of the first byte of the address, relative to b_rptr (for
example, if the address immediately follows the dl_notify_ind structure,
dl_addr_offset is set to 'sizeof (dl_notify_ind)'). For all other
event types, the dl_addr_length and dl_addr_offset fields must be
set to zero by DLPI providers and ignored by DLPI consumers.
In addition to generating DL_NOTIFY_IND messages when a requested event has
occurred, the DLPI provider must initially generate one or more
DL_NOTIFY_IND messages to notify the DLPI consumer of the current
state of the interface. For instance, if the consumer has requested
DL_NOTE_LINK_UP | DL_NOTE_LINK_DOWN, the provider must send a DL_NOTIFY_IND
containing the current state of the link (either DL_NOTE_LINK_UP or
DL_NOTE_LINK_DOWN) after sending the DL_NOTIFY_ACK.
For the initial DL_NOTIFY_IND message, the DLPI provider is strongly
recommended against sending DL_NOTE_LINK_DOWN, even if the interface is still
initializing and is not yet ready to send or receive packets. Instead, either
delaying the DL_NOTIFY_IND message until the interface is ready or
optimistically reporting DL_NOTIFY_LINK_UP and subsequently reporting
DL_NOTE_LINK_DOWN if the negotiation fails is strongly preferred. This
prevents DL_NOTIFY_IND consumers from needlessly triggering network failover
operations and logging error messages during network interface initialization.
The DLPI provider must continue to generate DL_NOTIFY_IND messages until it
receives a new DL_NOTIFY_REQ message or the DLPI stream is detached (or
closed). Further, a DLPI style 2 provider must keep track of the requested
events after a DL_DETACH_REQ operation, and if a subsequent DL_ATTACH_REQ is
received, it must send gratuitous DL_NOTIFY_IND messages to notify the
consumer of the current state of the device, since the state might have
changed while detached (or the consumer might have simply discarded its
previous state).
Solaris link aggregations as configured by dladm(8) export DLPI nodes for both the link aggregation, and individual links that comprises the aggregation, to allow observability of the aggregated links. To allow applications such as snoop(8) to open those individual aggregated links while disallowing other consumers such as ip(4P), DL_PASSIVE_REQ (a DLPI primitive), must be issued by snoop(8) and similar applications. The DL_PASSIVE_REQ primitive is an M_PROTO message containing the following payload:
typedef struct {
t_uscalar_t dl_primitive;
} dl_passive_req_t;
Issuing this primitive allows the consumer of a DLPI link to coexist with a
link aggregation that also uses the link. Such a consumer is considered
passive.
Consumers that don't use this primitive while an aggregation is using the link
receive DL_SYSERR/EBUSY when issuing the following DLPI primitives:
DL_BIND_REQ DL_ENABMULTI_REQ DL_PROMISCON_REQ DL_AGGR_REQ DL_UNAGGR_REQ DL_CONTROL_REQ DL_SET_PHYS_ADDR_REQA consumer that has not issued a DL_PASSIVE_REQ and has successfully issued one of the above primitives is considered active. The creation of a link aggregation using dladm(8) fails if one of the links included in the aggregation has an active consumer, but succeeds if the links do not have any DLPI consumers or only passive consumers.
The DLIOCRAW ioctl function is used by some DLPI applications, most notably the snoop(8) command. The DLIOCRAW command puts the stream into a raw mode, which, upon receive, causes the full MAC-level packet to be sent upstream in an M_DATA message instead of it being transformed into the DL_UNITDATA_IND form normally used for reporting incoming packets. Packet SAP filtering is still performed on streams that are in raw mode. If a stream user wants to receive all incoming packets it must also select the appropriate promiscuous modes. After successfully selecting raw mode, the application is also allowed to send fully formatted packets to the provider as M_DATA messages for transmission. DLIOCRAW takes no arguments. Once enabled, the stream remains in this mode until closed.
Some DLPI providers are able to represent their link layer using more than one link-layer format. In this case, the default link-layer format can minimize impact to applications, but might not allow truly native link-layer headers to be sent or received. DLPI consumers who wish to use the native link-layer format can use DLIOCNATIVE to transition the stream. DLIOCNATIVE takes no arguments and returns the DLPI mac type associated with the new link-layer format upon success. Once enabled, the stream remains in this mode until closed. Note that DLIOCNATIVE does not enable transition between dissimilar DLPI mac types and (aside from the link-layer format), the new DLPI mac type is guaranteed to be semantically identical. In particular, the SAP space and addressing format are not affected and the effect of DLIOCNATIVE is only visible when in raw mode, though any subsequent DL_INFO_REQ requests generate responses with dl_mac_type set to the native DLPI type.
While a DLPI provider provides its maximum SDU via dl_max_sdu in DL_INFO_ACK messages, this value typically represents a standard maximum SDU for the provider's media (1500 for Ethernet for example), and not necessarily the absolute maximum amount of data that the provider is able to transmit in a given data unit. The margin "is the extra amount of data in bytes that the provider can transmit beyond its advertised maximum SDU. For example, if a DL_ETHER provider can handle packets whose payload section is no greater than 1522 bytes and its dl_max_sdu is set to 1500 (as is typical for Ethernet), then the margin would be 22. If a provider supports a non-zero margin, it implements the DLIOCMARGININFO ioctl, whose data is a t_uscalar_t representing the margin size.
Some DL_ETHER DLPI providers support IEEE 802.1Q Virtual LANs (VLAN). For these providers, traffic for a particular VLAN can be accessed by opening a VLAN data-link.
Unless raw mode is enabled, a DLPI stream bound to a VLAN data-link behaves no differently than a traditional DLPI stream. As with non-VLAN data-link access, data must be sent to a DLPI provider without link-layer headers (which are added by the provider) and received data is passed to interested DLPI consumers without link-layer headers. As a result, DLPI consumers not require special-case logic to implement VLAN access.
As per IEEE 802.1Q, all VLAN traffic is sent using Ether- Type 0x8100, meaning that in addition to directly opening a VLAN data-link, all VLAN traffic for a given underline data-link can also be accessed by opening the underlying data-link and binding to SAP 0x8100. Accordingly, all VLAN traffic (regardless of VLAN ID) can be sent and received by the DLPI consumer. However, even when raw mode is disabled, packets are received starting with their VLAN headers and must be sent to the DLPI provider with their VLAN headers already pre-pended (but without Ethernet headers). Because adhering to these semantics requires each DLPI consumer to have specialized knowledge of VLANs, VLANs should only be accessed in this way when the traditional VLAN access method is insufficient (for example, because access to all VLAN traffic, regardless of VLAN ID, is needed).
Because all VLAN traffic is sent with SAP 0x8100, VLAN traffic not filtered at the physical (DL_PROMISC_PHYS) level is also visible if a DLPI consumer enables promiscuous mode of a stream at the DL_PROMISC_SAP level. As mentioned earlier, these packets are received starting with their VLAN headers if raw mode is not enabled.
The IEEE 802.1Q standard defines eight classes of priority values used by QoS traffic control of Ethernet packets. Although the priority values are encoded in the 802.1Q tags, they can be used independently from VLANs. In particular, a special priority tagged packet (with VLAN ID zero but priority bits non-zero) does not belong to any VLAN.
The priority value can be set on either a per-stream or per-packet basis. DLPI consumers can specify the per-stream priority using the DL_UDQOS_REQ request (the priority value remains unchanged until the next DL_UDQOS_REQ) and also specify the per-packet priority value using the b_band field of a M_DATA message or the dl_priority field of a DL_UNITDATA_REQ.
When raw mode is enabled, the complete, unmodified MAC- level packet (including Ethernet and VLAN headers) is passed to interested DLPI consumers. Similarly, the entire MAC-level packet (including Ethernet and VLAN headers) must be sent to the DLPI provider for transmission. Note that the priority value specified in the b_band field can be overridden by encoding the priority value (if any) into the VLAN header.
When raw mode is enabled, only packets with the correct VLAN ID are passed up to interested DLPI consumers. With the exception of priority-tagged packets, DLPI providers must strip off the VLAN headers (while retaining the preceding Ethernet headers) before sending up the packets. For priority-tagged packets, DLPI providers must use the reserved tag 0 to encode the VLAN TCI and send up the packets.
On the transmit-side, DLPI consumers must send the packets down to the DLPI providers without the VLAN headers (but with the Ethernet headers) unless certain QoS support is required. If QoS support is needed, the packet can have the VLAN header to indicate the priority value, however its VLAN ID must be zero. The DLPI providers then insert the VLAN tags or encode the VLAN tags using the priority value specified in the VLAN headers and send the packets.
Files in or under /dev.
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
| Interface Stability (Notification support/Passive mode behavior) |
| Committed |
libdlpi (3LIB), gld (4D), ip (4P), dladm (8), snoop (8)
A Solaris DLPI link name consists of a DLPI provider name followed by a numeric PPA (physical point of attachment).
The DLPI provider name must be between 1 and 16 characters in length, though names between 3 and 8 characters are preferred. The DLPI provider name can consist of any alphanumeric character (a-z, A-Z, 0-9), and the underscore (_). The first and last character of the DLPI provider name cannot be a digit.
The PPA must be a number between 0 and 4294967294 inclusive. Leading zeroes are not permitted.