DLPI Programmer's Guide

56 Chapter 2

DLPI Primitives

Local Management Primitives

The message consists of one M_PCPROTO message block, which

contains the following structure.

Format

typedef struct {

ulong dl_primitive;

} dl_info_req_t;

Parameters

dl_primitive

DL_INFO_REQ

State

The message is valid in any state in which a local acknowledgment is not

pending, as described in Appendix B, Allowable Sequence of DLPI

Primitives, of the DLPI 2.0 speciﬁcation.

New State

The resulting state is unchanged.

DL_INFO_ACK

This message is sent in response to DL_INFO_REQ; it conveys

information about the DLPI stream to the DLS user.

This message consists of one M_PCPROTO message block, which

contains the following structure.

Format

typedef struct {

ulong dl_primitve;

ulong dl_max_sdu;

ulong dl_min_sdu;

ulong dl_addr_length;

ulong dl_mac_type;

ulong dl_reserved;

ulong dl_current_state;

ulong dl_sap_length;

ulong dl_service_mode;

ulong dl_qos_length;

ulong dl_qos_offset;

ulong dl_qos_range_length;

ulong dl_provider_style;

ulong dl_addr_offset;

ulong dl_version;

ulong dl_brdcst_addr_length;