DLPI Programmer's Guide

Preface

This guide provides STREAMS kernel-level programming information

that is speciﬁed by the ISO Data Link Service Deﬁnition DIS 8886 and

Logical Link Control DIS 8802/2 (LLC). Where the two standards do not

conform, DIS 8886 prevails.

This guide assumes familiarity with the OSI Reference Model

terminology, OSI Data Link Services, and STREAMS. It is organized as

follows:

Chapter 1 Introduction to DLPI

This chapter provides an overview of DLPI, including

addressing information and information on DLPI

services.

Chapter 2 DLPI Primitives

This chapter describes local management primitives,

connectionless mode primitives, raw mode primitives,

and primitives to handle XID and TEST operations.

Appendix A Sample Programs

This appendix contains sample programs for

connection mode, connectionless mode, and raw mode.