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Dlpi addressing – Sun Microsystems 1.0 User Manual

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SunFDDI/P 1.0 Adapter User’s GuideMay 1997

10

DLPI Addressing

DLPI addressing is implemented as a DLSAP (data link service access point)
address. Each DLSAP consists of a physical address plus a service access point
(SAP). The format of the DLSAP is provider-dependent. Figure 10-3 shows the
general format of the SunFDDI/P DLSAP.

Figure 10-3 SunFDDI/P DLSAP Format

Information returned by the

DL_INFO_ACK

primitive (in response to a

DL_INFO_REQ

) is used to specify the encoding and decoding rules to insert

and extract the DLSAP for a given data link provider. The information
returned by the SunFDDI/P device driver is shown in Table 10-1.

Table 10-1

DL_INFO_REQ

Frame

Element

Value

Description

dl_max_sdu

4352 bytes

Maximum MTU

dl_min_sdu

0 bytes

Minimum MTU

dl_addr_length

8 bytes

Length of DLSAP

dl_mac_type

DL_FDDI

FDDI MAC layer

dl_reserved

0

Unused

dl_current_state

Current state of data link provider

dl_sap_length

-2 bytes

Length of DLSAP

dl_service_mode

DL_CLDLS

Connectionless service

dl_qos_length

0

Not supported

TYPE

6 Bytes

2 Bytes

DSAP

ORG

SSAP CTL

LLC

SNAP