[NetworkStatus] use the network kit api

[diver]

This is hrev46311.

Probably the same changes should be applied to ​NetworkStatus as in hrev45534 since it shows bogus values while interface is configuring.

[diver]

To reproduce use non-existent network interface: ifconfig /dev/net/foo auto-confing

[jackburton]

Done in hrev46328. Unfortunately this does not fix the problem reported in comment 1.

[jackburton]

Replying to jackburton:

Done in hrev46328. Unfortunately this does not fix the problem reported in comment 1.

Replying to myself: The problem lies within BNetworkRoster or, more probably, in the network stack: BNetworkRoster::AddInterface() should fail when passing an invalid interface like in comment 1.

[jackburton]

As suspected: ifconfig /dev/net/foo does actually cause the net_stack to allocate resources for the non-existing interface.

[jackburton]

Shouldn't the stack or the ethernet module check if a device with the given name exists ? In allocate_device_interface() or in ethernet_init() respectively.

[jackburton]

Closing, since the original problem is fixed. I opened a new ticket for the problem in comment 1. (#10183).