Solaris Networking - The Magic Revealed

Just in case you missed this...
Sunay has been in India for the past few weeks and has actually been working! He's just finished the treatise on Solaris Networking which will become a new section of the Solaris Internals book.
In his blog, Sunay has included excerpts to give us a preview of what's to come!
Check out his blog entry: Solaris Networking - The Magic Revealed at:
http://blogs.sun.com/sunay
Best,
- Carol

Hello.
I was porting another network driver to Solaris and I used GLD, too.
I do not know which GLD version I was using. (I think not v3; module name is /kernel/misc/gld, not /kernel/misc/mac.)
The documentation I used was "Writing Device Drivers" in the "Solaris 10" section on Sun's documentation site.
All include files were present on Solaris 9/Sparc and OpenSolaris/x86 (I do not have Solaris 10 installed so I cannot tell you if the include files are present.)
Martin

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