Opened 12 years ago
Last modified 12 years ago
#9393 new bug
NetworkInterfaces don't identify themselves properly while disabled
| Reported by: | kallisti5 | Owned by: | axeld |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Unscheduled |
| Component: | Network & Internet/Stack | Version: | R1/Development |
| Keywords: | IsWireless IsEthernet BNetworkDevice | Cc: | |
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Platform: | All |
Description
kits/network/libnetapi/NetworkDevice.cpp:BNetworkDevice::IsEthernet() kits/network/libnetapi/NetworkDevice.cpp:BNetworkDevice::IsWireless()
While an interface is disabled, both IsEthernet and IsWireless return false making identification of network devices difficult while they are disabled.
IsWireless checks for a media type of "IFM_IEEE80211" IsEthernet checks for a media type of "IFM_ETHER"
As far as I can tell, these are both set properly at the freebsd glue layer. My guess is that this failure might be comming from the "do_request(request, Name(), SIOCGIFMEDIA) != B_OK" check in BNetworkDevice::Media.
Maybe we should be identifying these devices using some other metric?
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Or the stack's ioctl() should not reject SIOCGIFMEDIA because the interface is disabled. It's not like an interface's media will change next time it's enabled...
Others SIOCGIF* may also be happy to respond even when itf is disabled. I didn't check which ones, though.