Re: Bringing Up TCP/IP?
Re: Bringing Up TCP/IP?
- Subject: Re: Bringing Up TCP/IP?
- From: Joshua Graessley <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 21:00:23 -0800
If it's possbile to use IPv6, that mike work better. Chances are all of
the interfaces have IPv6 enabled and have acquired an IPv6LL address.
-josh
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.
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Thank you for your suggestions.
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...Duane
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