HP-UX Reference (11i v3 07/02) - 7 Device (Special) Files, 9 General Information, Index (vol 10)

dlpi(7) dlpi(7)

• Infrastructure for protocol, multicast and promiscuous processing.

• Infrastructure for asynchronous processing of control.

• Inbound frame processing.

• Processing link up and down events.

• Repository for all registered interfaces and associated information.

• Outbound processing before hand off to physical drivers.

DLPI provides its services through three header ﬁles that are exported. The header ﬁles

<dlpi.h> and

<dlpi_ext.h> are for user space applications and kernel level STREAMS modules. The header ﬁle

<dlpi_drv.h> is for physical and logical drivers.

WARNINGS

Various implementations of DLPI exists within HP-UX for special technologies like ATM, Hyper Fabric,

etc.; but the DLPI that supports LAN class drivers (tightly coupled) is the one covered by this manual page.

The lanadmin, lanscan, and linkloop commands are deprecated. These commands will be removed

in a future HP-UX release. HP recommends the use of replacement command nwmgr(1M) to perform all

network interface-related tasks.

AUTHOR

dlpi was developed by HP, based on DLPI 2.0 standard.