[haiku-commits] Re: r37941 - in haiku/trunk: headers/posix/net src/add-ons/kernel/network/stack src/apps/networkstatus
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:04:42 +0200
Stefano Ceccherini <stefano.ceccherini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Talking about Mac Addresses... and while you are working on the
> network stack: is it possible to implement the SIOCGIFHWADDR and
> SIOCSIFHWADDR ioctls ? (they get and set, respectively, the physical
> (mac) address of an interface).
While it would work differently in our stack (ie. you would just call
the usual SIOCSIFADDR on the link layer), the functionality to do that
is not yet exposed by our ethernet interface.
Since at least some FreeBSD drivers support this, this feature could be
added for those easily.
Bye,
Axel.
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