[olsr-dev] freebsd multiple interfaces

[David Cornejo]

The inability to bind to a socket is exactly what I'm trying to get around.

I don't like the use of libnet much either, but the portability is
compelling.  I could even use pcap on the receive.  Reagrdless, it
might be nice to have a pcap/libnet solution as an option.  Now if
only there was a portable route library...

dave c

On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 09:22:13 +0100, Roar Bjørgum Rotvik
<(spam-protected)> wrote:
> David Cornejo wrote:
> > I have a very rough attempt at making olsrd work with multiple
> > interfaces in FreeBSD.  Right now I'm using libnet to make up outgoing
> > packets, and have hacked the receive side to make it work.  It's
> > really ugly, but it seems to be working so far..
> >
> > I've run into a structural problem - net_output() (in src/net.c) and
> > olsr_input() (in src/parser.c) require a lot of changing, and I'm
> > thinking they might better off in the OS specific directories.
> >
> > So, couple of questions:
> > 1) is anyone radically opposed to the usage of libnet?  I've seen some
> > things coming in FreeBSD 6 that would allow less modifications (maybe
> > even none), but that doesn't help those of us stuck at FreeBSD 4 or 5.
> >  Libnet would be portable across all these.
> 
> Personally I don't like to include more external libraries than needed,
> but if this is a special case for BSD I wouldn't care as much as I don't
> use this platform :)
> 
> I guess that BSD4/5 is missing functionality to "bind" a socket to a
> spesific interface like Linux can?
> If this is the case, I don't understand what libnet does to fix this
> that olsrd cannot do directly?
> 
> If this is not the problem you are trying to fix, what problem does
> libnet fix for you?
> 
> --
> Roar Bjørgum Rotvik
>