[rds-devel] RDS on Solaris 10

Giri Adari Giri.Adari at Sun.COM
Mon Jun 9 09:44:18 PDT 2008


Tomo,

Solaris 10 Update 4 (s10x_u4wos_12b) or later is best.

Giri.

Tomoaki Sato wrote:
> Giri,
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
>> BTW, what version of Solaris are you running?
>
> Currently I'm using 'Solaris 10 11/06 s10x_u3wos_10 X86'.
> I belive that Solaris 10 8/07 or later is required for using RDS.
>
> Tomo.
>
>> Tomoaki,
>>
>> RDS is available on Solaris by default. You can use RDS if you have 
>> IB hardware in the system. Check to see if RDS is loaded on the 
>> system by:
>>       # modinfo | grep rds
>>
>> If the above command shows the rds driver loaded then you are ready 
>> to run an application that uses RDS sockets. The application can open 
>> an RDS socket as below:
>>
>>    fd = socket(AF_INET_OFFLOAD, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)
>>
>> Currently, Solaris does not deliver any applications that use RDS. 
>> Please let me know if you see any issues.
>>
>> BTW, what version of Solaris are you running?
>>
>> Giri.
>>
>> Tomoaki Sato wrote:
>>> Could you someone tell me how can I use RDS on Solaris 10 ?
>>> There is SUNWrds package but it seems that the package does not 
>>> include man pages such like rds(7D).
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Tomo Sato
>>> TCB Technologies Corporation
>>>  
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>>
>>
>>
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