Technical data

riles(7D) Devices SunOS 5.5
NAME riles − device driver for the Racal Interlan ES-3210 Ethernet Adapter
SYNOPSIS /dev/riles
AVAILABILITY x86
DESCRIPTION The riles Ethernet driver is a multi-threaded, loadable, gld (Generic LAN Driver) compli-
ant, clonable,STREAMS hardware driver that supports the connectionless service mode of
the Data Link Provider Interface, dlpi(7P), over a Racal Interlan ES-3210 (ES-3210) con-
troller. The driver can support multiple ES-3210 controllers on the same system. It pro-
vides basic support for the controller such as chip initialization, frame transmission and
reception, multicasting and promiscuous mode support, maintenance of error statistic
counters, and automatic detection of missing links.
APPLICATION
PROGRAMMING
INTERFACE
The riles driver uses the gld (Generic LAN Driver) module of Solaris, which handles all
the STREAMS andDLPI specific functions of the driver. It is a style 2 DLPI driver and sup-
ports only the connectionless mode of data transfer. Thus, a DLPI user should issue a
DL_ATTACH_REQ primitive to select the device to be used. ValidDLPI primitives are
defined in <sys/dlpi.h>. Refer to dlpi(7P) for more information.
The device is initializedon the first attach and de-initialized(stopped) on the last detach.
The values returned by the driver in theDL_INFO_ACK primitive in response to a
DL_INFO_REQ from the user are as follows:
The maximum SDU is 1500 (ETHERMTU - defined in <sys/ethernet.h>).
The minimumSDU is 0.
The DLSAP address lengthis 8.
The MAC type is DL_ETHER.
The sap length value is −2, meaning the physical address component is fol-
lowed immediately by a 2 byte sap component within theDLSAP address.
The service mode is DL_CLDLS.
No optional quality of service (QOS) support is included at present, so the
QOS fields are 0.
The provider style is DL_STYLE2.
The version is DL_VERSION_2.
The broadcast address value is the Ethernet/IEEE broadcast address
(FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF).
7D-276 modified 5 May 1995