[Mono-bugs] [Bug 63265][Nor] Changed - When the AddressList for a machine is requested only loopback address is returned

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Changed by dick@ximian.com.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=63265

--- shadow/63265	2005-01-18 20:54:50.000000000 -0500
+++ shadow/63265.tmp.348	2005-01-19 11:49:03.000000000 -0500
@@ -149,6 +149,12 @@
 correct;  but I can see why people will be using this API.
 
 The only portable thing we can do on Unix to find out the IP 
 address being used is to connect to a system; and then query the
 credentials to extract the ip address that the kernel used to
 connect (this is what FTP clients do when they send the PORT command)
+
+------- Additional Comments From dick@ximian.com  2005-01-19 11:49 -------
+Getting the interface list can be done reasonably portably on unixy
+machines with a SIOCGIFCONF ioctl.  It has issues with buffer sizes
+when the buffer passed to the kernel isnt big enough - some systems
+return EINVAL, some just give as much info as there is space.