dlb(7) [osf1 man page]

dlb(7)							 Miscellaneous Information Manual						    dlb(7)

NAME

       dlb, dlpi - STREAMS pseudodevice driver for bridging BSD Drivers to STREAMS

SYNOPSIS

       #include <sys/dlpihdr.h>
       #include <fcntl.h>

       fd = open ("/dev/streams/dlb", O_RDWR, 0);

DESCRIPTION

       The  dlb  STREAMS  pseudodevice driver provides a communication path between BSD-style device drivers and STREAMS protocol stacks.  The dlb
       STREAMS pseudodevice driver is the Stream end in a Stream that communicates with BSD-based device drivers.

       When the /dev/streams/dlb character device is open, a Stream is constructed between a Stream head and the dlb pseudodevice  driver.   After
       the  Stream  that  is intended to communicate with the BSD-based driver or drivers is created, the protocol module or modules can be pushed
       onto it.

       Tru64 UNIX supports a subset of the Data Link Provider Interface (DLPI) connectionless mode of communication.  The attach DLPI primitive is
       required to associate a particular physical point of attachment (PPA) with a Stream in Tru64 UNIX's implementation of the style 2 provider.

       On  the write side, the dlb pseudodevice driver translates connectionless style 2 DLPI messages to the appropriate BSD ifnet interface mes-
       sages.  On the read side, the user-bound Service Access Point (SAP) messages received from a selected PPA over BSD based driver or  drivers
       are sent upstream.

RELATED INFORMATION

       Network Programmer's Guide
       specification in /usr/share/doclib/dlpi/dlpi.ps delim off

																	    dlb(7)

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NAME

       dlpi.h - data link provider interface standard header file

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

       is  the	standard  header file containing DLPI requests as prescribed by the DLPI 2.0 standard.	It contains the definitions for the primi-
       tives, acknowledgements and associated structures.

       The header file must be included by all DLS users (user-space and kernel-space) who intend to interact with LAN drivers through DLPI.

       The header file contains definitions for both connection-mode and connectionless service.

       The header file provides definitions that are required by networking device drivers to interactvie with DLPI; see dlpi_drv(4).  The  header
       file provides HP-specific extensions to DLPI 2.0 standards; see dlpi_ext(4).  The manual page dlpi(7) provides an overview of HP-UX's DLPI.

AUTHOR

       was created by HP, based on DLPI 2.0 standard.

SEE ALSO

       dlpi_drv(4), dlpi_ext(4), dlpi(7), lan(7).

																	   dlpi(4)

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