[Mono-dev] System.Net.NetworkInformation

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

    The case that uses sysfs is only used on the Linux case;   We would
need different implementations for different operating systems.

On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 18:56 -0700, Jacob Gladish wrote:
> I tried to use System.Net.NetworkInformation.IPInterfaceProperties.GetIPProperties(). It looks like it's not implemented. I'd certainly be willing to lend a hand here, but I have a question... In NetworkInterface.cs there's this comment:
>  
>         //
>         // This class needs support from the libsupport.so library to fetch the
>         // data using arch-specific ioctls.
>         //
> 
>  
> In the code that follows, there's direct access to sysfs -- see the implementation for GetAllNetworkInterfaces() in NetworkInterface.cs. It seems sysfs has a lot (possibly all) the information needed to implement the missing classes required for GetIPProperties() to work. What's the direction here? As far as I know, sysfs is a Linux-only thing. 
> thanks
> -jake
> 
> 
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