SPECIFICATION
IRIXETH is an user-space x-kernel ethernet driver that sends and receives
messages using IRIX raw sockets.
SYNOPSIS
IRIXETH places and receives packets directly on the wire using the SGI
raw socket interface. Using raw sockets is a priviledged operation,
so the user must be root or the running xkernel must be owned by
root and have the suid bit set.
REALM
IRIXETH is in the ASYNC realm, supporting the ethernet driver interface
described in the ETH appendix.
PARTICIPANTS
IRIXETH supports the ethernet driver interface rather than a standard
xkernel UPI interface and thus makes no use of participant stacks.
CONTROL OPERATIONS
EXTERNAL INTERFACE
IRIXETH supports the ethernet driver interface described in the ETH appendix.
CONFIGURATION
IRIXETH requires no lower protocol. It can be configured in either the
driver section or the protocol section of graph.comp.
IRIXETH recognizes the following ROM options:
irixeth mmmm nnnn: This instantiation of irixeth should use IRIX raw socket send port mmmm and receive port nnnn. There must be such a line for each instantiation of IRIXETH in the x-kernel.
AUTHORS
Jim Doyle