[haiku-development] Re: BNetworkInterface questions
- From: Alexander von Gluck <kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 10:18:27 -0600
On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 14:56 +0100, Axel Dörfler wrote:
> Alexander von Gluck<kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 1) You can't seem to bring up virtual network cards:
> > /Data/haiku/headers> ifconfig /dev/net/broadcom570x/0:0 up
> > ifconfig: Setting flags failed: No such file or directory
>
> Sure, there is no support for virtual network cards whatsoever. This has
> nothing to do with BNetworkInterface itself, though, this is what the network
> stack is doing.
Wierd.. Haiku lets you create one that works...
http://pastebin.com/escXeQ8m
> > 2) BNetworkInterface FindFirstAddress(AF_INET) and
> > BNetworkInterface FindFirstAddress(AF_INET6)
> >
> > Both return the same index (0) on an interface without an IPv6 Address.
> > (maybe a == vs === issue?)
>
> Use the code, Luke! The BNetwork* APIs are all relatively new, so they might
> contain lots of bugs :-)
> Most methods have been tested, but not all of them. If you like, you could
> add tests for this like the one for BNetworkAddress.
Lol, just checking if it was a known issue. I'll look within the
BNetworkAddress sources to see if I can find the source of the problem.
Also, I noticed that the Broadcast address is being calculated
incorrectly by ifconfig...
/dev/net/broadcom570x/0
Hardware type: Ethernet, Address: 00:15:60:c0:17:a5
Media type: 100 MBit, 100BASE-TX
inet addr: 10.21.16.87, Bcast: 10.255.255.255, Mask: 255.255.254.0
MTU: 1500, Metric: 0, up broadcast link auto-configured
Receive: 3176 packets, 0 errors, 315367 bytes, 0 mcasts, 0 dropped
Transmit: 113 packets, 0 errors, 13595 bytes, 0 mcasts, 0 dropped
Collisions: 0
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Thanks!
-Alexander von Gluck IV
GPG/C32E7686
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