Re: Network Device Informations

[David Sugar]

I think it would be okay to also add to 1.0...



On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Federico Montesino Pouzols wrote:

> 
>       Returning -1 seems a good option. If there were another way to
> fix this problem, we could always add a patch for that later.
> 
>       The new code is alreay in the 1.1 CVS branch.
> 
>       I am sure CC++ works well under Win98, and it should on Win95.
> 
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 07:38:28AM -0500, David Sugar wrote:
> > 
> > I think the -1 MTU returned from something (like win95) which cannot 
> > return a mtu is find...
> > 
> > On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Prochnow, Christian wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > The ioctl() calls made in enumNetworkDevices() should work under Linux, 
> > > Solaris and FreeBSD cause this is a common UNIX ioctl. The structures 
> > > used 
> > > are also UNIX-common. 
> > > ioctl() are very different between unices if we want to query IPv6 
> > > devices 
> > > also - but Common C++ doesnt support IPv6 at all, right ?
> > > So adding IPv6 support to Common C++ and to the NetworkDeviceInfo class 
> > > should 
> > > be a TODO item for future releases.
> > > 
> > > So what dou you think of the MTU issue ?
> > > Does anyone know if Common C++ works under Win95 ?
> > > And when - do you think we should break compatibility with Win95 cause of 
> > > this 
> > > MIB functions ? Or should the Win95 implementation simply return "-1" as 
> > > MTU. 
> > > I think querying the MTU is a common-task for UDP-message oriented 
> > > protocols. 
> > > 
> > > I'm using Common C++ to develop Finance Realtime Applications for my 
> > > employer 
> > > (a German company) which mainly runs Linux on their Servers and Windows 
> > > on 
> > > their Workstations.
> > > Cause i'm actively using Common C++ now, and also did a portable 
> > > application 
> > > framework (P::Classes) in the past i would like to continue contributing 
> > > to 
> > > the Common C++ Project.
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Christian Prochnow
> > > 
> 
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