[OmniOS-discuss] LX for OmniOS update

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 9 Aug 2016, Dan McDonald wrote:

> Can't use Linux network configuration.  Use /native/sbin/ipadm and /native/sbin/route.  (You will also need to add those to some sort of boot script in-zone for now.)

I think that any program using netlink and rtnetlink sockets (similar 
in operation to routing sockets) 
(http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/netlink.7.html, 
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/rtnetlink.7.html) will not work 
whereas some deprecated ioctls may work.

This is problematic since Linux programs configuring or querying 
network topology/configuration are supposed to use netlink now and 
ioctls are deprecated.

The Linux 'ip' command uses netlink whereas legacy 'ifconfig' may 
be using ioctls.

Illumos could provide an emulation of netlink sockets, but of course 
this would be a lot of work.

Bob
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