Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!decwrl!shlump.dec.com!michaud From: michaud@decvax.dec.com (Jeff Michaud) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: DLI/Ethernet interface questions Keywords: DLI Ethernet promiscuous Message-ID: <3651@shlump.dec.com> Date: 20 Jul 89 22:52:53 GMT References: <810@uhnix2.uh.edu> Sender: news@shlump.dec.com Lines: 27 In article <810@uhnix2.uh.edu>, jh@allez.uh.edu (Jeff Hayward) writes: > Some questions for anyone familiar with the DLI Ethernet interface > provided with DECnet-Ultrix. Just so no one thinks they have to buy DECnet-ULTRIX (though it would be nice if they bought it anyways :-) to use DLI, you don't. DLI is part of the base (ULTRIX) system. The confusion may be because DLI is documented in our (DECnet-ULTRIX) doc set :-). > How can I obtain the Ethernet address of a given interface? Open a socket to to the AF_UNIX or DLI domain and issue ioctl(SIOCRPHYSADDR). I'll post a sample program as a seperate followup. > Is it possible to enable promiscuous-mode reception, and if so, how? Nope, not that I know of. > Is there a better (software) interface available for Ultrix? If you do have DECnet-ULTRIX V3.0 you may want to install the DNUBASE030 (or DNPBASE030 for RISC, ala DS3100 version) and then take a look in /usr/examples/dli. -- /--------------------------------------------------------------\ |Jeff Michaud michaud@decwrl.dec.com michaud@decvax.dec.com| |DECnet-ULTRIX #include | \--------------------------------------------------------------/