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From: akumar@cs.tamu.edu (Amit W Kumar)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: DLPI Vs BSD Sockets Vs Sys V TLI
Date: 24 Aug 1994 16:39:25 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M Computer Science Department, College Station, TX
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I'm trying to run some tests over our FDDI ring, and am looking to use
whatever has the least overhead. So, my question is: which of
DLPI/sockets/TLI would be the most efficient to do this? DLPI seemed
the logical choice to me, but I read somewhere about it being "a
bloated montrosity" with way too much overhead. :) Would somebody care
to shed some light on this?

And, yes, we are running Solaris 2.3

csos3> uname -a
SunOS csos3 5.3 Generic sun4m sparc


Thanks in advance.

Amit