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ifnet Driver Interfaces

The interface definitions and contents of the following #include files are subject to change without notice. While the policy is to avoid or minimize driver modifications required as new releases of IRIX become available, no guarantees of source or binary compatibility between releases of the operating system are made for networking drivers.

The primary ifnet data structure and routines to manipulate this are defined in net/if.h. They are augmented with interface types defined in net/if_types.h.

Functions and macros to allocate, manipulate, and free mbufs are defined in sys/mbuf.h.

The function schednetisr to schedule a kernel software interrupt routine, related macros, and a declaration for the IP input queue ipintrq are defined in net/netisr.h.

Constants and structures for support of the raw protocol family are defined in net/raw.h.

Routines defining a generic filter for use by network interfaces whose devices cannot perfectly filter multicast packets are declared in net/multi.h.

DLPI interface support routines and structure definitions are in
sys/dlsap_register.h.

Socket interface ioctl definitions are in net/soioctl.h.

Ethernet and ARP-related data structures and function prototypes are provided in netinet/if_ether.h.


Multiprocessor Issues
Compilation Flags for MP TCP/IP

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