Re: Bringing Up TCP/IP?
Re: Bringing Up TCP/IP?
- Subject: Re: Bringing Up TCP/IP?
- From: "Duane Murphy" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 21:53:14 -0800
--- At Fri, 2 Jan 2004 21:00:23 -0800, Joshua Graessley wrote:
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If it's possbile to use IPv6, that mike work better. Chances are all of
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the interfaces have IPv6 enabled and have acquired an IPv6LL address.
I really no nothing about IPv6. If it requires the device to know IPv6
then I don't think that will work.
Suggestions for reading up on IPv6?
So IPv6 is brought up on interfaces even when nothing else is used? How
far back does this go in OS's? We need back to 10.1.5-ish.
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On Dec 31, 2003, at 1:47 PM, Duane Murphy wrote:
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> On OS X ...
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> We have a need to temporarily bring up TCP/IP on an ethernet interface
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> preferably without modifying the users current network configuration.
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> If TCP/IP is setup correctly for us to use we can go ahead and use it.
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> But if the system is currently set to dial the modem or use PPPoE for
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> example TCP/IP wont work on the local network.
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> We can discover through other means which physical interface needs to
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> be
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> brought up, but we then need to use TCP/IP on the interface.
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> What is the correct way to do this?
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> I expect that this maybe standard UNIX level kinds of commands which
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> would be fine. What ever works. C/C++ APIs would be great. Exec-ing
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> commands is also acceptable.
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> For example if the current network settings are for dial-up and we
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> detect
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> that the device that we want to communicate with is on AirPort. then we
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> would like to bring up TCP/IP on the AirPort interface (usually en1)
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> I see this as kind of like Rendezvous. In some cases we would want a
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> link
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> local address. However in other cases, the device we would communicate
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> with will be a router and we would like to be able to use DHCP with the
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> interface.
...Duane
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