[BusyBox] nameif
Jason Schoon
floydpink at gmail.com
Tue May 31 16:26:07 UTC 2005
Are you perhaps bring the device up before calling nameif on this platform?
That is a guaranteed way to make it fail.
Is there any way you can try a non-busybox version of nameif on this
particular platform to see how it behaves?
On 5/31/05, Miguel Ángel Álvarez Cabanes <ma.alvarez at usyscom.com> wrote:
>
> I have been using nameif in different embedded environments (PPC and
> 686) without problems.
>
> However, when trying to use it with an STPC Atlas (I think it is based
> on a 486) and kernel 2.6.10 (busybox 1.0.0), it allways breaks on:
>
> if (ioctl(ctl_sk, SIOCGIFNAME, &ifr))
> break;
>
> I am not quite sure about the causes of the problem, but I have solved
> it adding an option that allows to set the old name of the interface...
> (which I think it coulf be quite useful because you don't need to know
> the MAC of your device).
>
> I suppose that using this I could also eliminate the use of:
> /* Has this device hwaddr? */
> if (ioctl(ctl_sk, SIOCGIFHWADDR, &ifr))
> continue;
>
> but I have maintained it for compatibility.
>
> Has anybody experience the same problems with nameif?
>
> Thanks
>
> Miguel Ángel
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