Re: Writing a virtual network interface
Re: Writing a virtual network interface
- Subject: Re: Writing a virtual network interface
- From: Josh Graessley <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:02:40 -0800
The network preference pane doesn't work for interface types it does
not know about. I believe you have to write your own utility or
preference pane for handling your interfaces.
You will need to use the SystemConfiguration framework to add a
service for your interface and put that in the list of active
services. I believe the service will appear in the network preference
pane so the order can be adjusted but the service itself can not be
modified there. If you haven't already done so, I would suggest
filing a bug. If it is an option to you, I'd contact DTS too.
You may also need some piece of code that runs when your interface is
configured to push state in to the dynamic store. The system will use
the DNS settings and default gateway out of that state to pick the
systems DNS settings and default gateway in the event the service on
your interface is the highest priority active service. I may be
mixing up the terminology a bit. Hopefully this will give you enough
clues to get you started. I don't know where sample code for this
appears of the top of my head, perhaps someone else can chime in.
Read up on the SystemConfiguration framework.
-josh
On Feb 16, 2007, at 1:41 AM, Eyal Redler wrote:
Thing is, it doesn't show there. I will also need to to this
programmatically.
Note that this is not a IOKit driver, just a NKE. Is there a way to
this?
TIA
On Feb 16, 2007, at 1:45, Tom Marchand wrote:
Go to the Network System Preferences and drag the your interface
to the top of the list.
On Feb 15, 2007, at 1:59 PM, Eyal Redler wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to write a virtual network interface using the interface
KPI (as described in "Network Kernel Extensions Programming Guide").
I wrote a dummy interface that just logs that packets it receives
and I can see my interface with ifconfig after kextloading it but
I have no idea how to make my interface the default (I'm not sure
if this is the right terminology, I mean: how do I make the
system use this interface for ip traffic).
I'd appreciate any pointers on the subject.
TIA
Eyal
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