David Kirkby <david.kir...@onetel.net> added the comment:

Thank you Mark for confirming what I found. 

I understand your reservations about the code if you don't know of its 
correctness. I must admit I don't myself. I don't have a clue how this _socket 
module should be built. 

But it is clear to me that the original code is attempting to compile code 
using PACKET_LOOPBACK, PACKET_FASTROUTE and SIOCGIFNAME, despite they are not 
defined. Although I'm not a mind-reader, I believer the original programmer 
probably thought they were defined in the header file netpacket/packet.h, when 
in fact they are not on Solaris. 

I wish I could take Martin v. Löwis up on his "5-for-one deal", where I review 
5 issues and he deals with this one. Unfortunately, I'm very new to python, so 
really are not going to be a lot of help to anyone in reviewing issues. I will 
just have to keep that patch in Sage until it either gets to the top of 
Martin's TODO list, or someone else deals with it. 

Dave

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