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- From: djn@csc.liv.ac.uk (David Nixon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.unix.internals
- Subject: HP-UX Network Protocol registration
- Keywords: HP-UX,Ethernet Driver,Amoeba RPC
- Message-ID: <6069@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 14:26:28 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.man.ac.uk
- Followup-To: comp.sys.hp
- Organization: Computer Science, Liverpool University
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- I am in the process of porting a network protocol, Amoeba RPC, to HP-UX 8-07
- for the 700 series.
-
- The protocol is implemented as a device driver which interfaces
- directly with the HP network interface driver.
-
- The problem is that I don't know the method to register the
- protocol with the ethernet driver; so that incoming packets will
- be passed to the protocol's input routine.
-
- N.b. the protocol code uses the ether_register() kernel routine which is
- ,I think, SUNOS specific:- I have come across a suggestively named routine, in
- the ethernet driver, called lanc_log_protocol(), but can only guess if this is
- what I should be using.
-
- I shall be very grateful if anyone can supply details of the following:
-
- 1) Confirmation that a protocol registering mechanism exits under HP-UX
-
- 2) Name and call syntax of the relevant kernel routine.
-
- 3) Kernel data structures used to hold the details of each protocol
- registered.
-
- David Nixon ------- Computer Science Department, University of Liverpool.
- e-mail: djn%csc.ac.liv.uk : tel 44-051-794-3690
-