Re: Network Device Informations

[Federico Montesino Pouzols]

        Ummm, I think this adds interesting features. I think this
should be added soon to the unstable branch, at least. I will do some
tests, tell us if you check it works on other platforms, as I believe
that some of the system calls may be problematic.

On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 02:26:23PM +0100, Prochnow, Christian wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> For a networking application i needed to query a list of Network Devices and 
> their Broadcast addresses to ignore Broadcasts from my own. Here's the 
> solution which i think is of interest for implementing it in Common C++.
> 
> This solution is tested under Linux, but should also work under other UNIX 
> systems which needs to be verified. Win32 stuff is also implemented, but 
> untested. I also did'nt find a way to get the MTU under Win32 without braking 
> compatibility with Win95 (with >= Win98 it is possible to get the MTU via MIB 
> extensions).
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Christian Prochnow
>