| Subject: | New methods needed for interfaces |
| Date: | Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:51:41 -0600 |
| To: | bug-net-interface [...] rt.cpan.org |
| From: | Philip Prindeville <philipp [...] cpan.org> |
I'd like to see the following methods added for interfaces:
aliases -- support for aliased interfaces
sub-interfaces -- (including VLAN). Ethernet interfaces using VLAN
encapsulation, Wifi interfaces with multiple ssid associations, and X.25
or Frame Relay interfaces with multiple VC's all need to support
sub-interfaces. Since iproute2 supports interface renaming (as does iw
and wlanconfig), a mapping from the parent interface to its children and
from the child back to its parent is needed.
bridging -- if something is a bridge interface, an attribute with its
member physical interfaces would be useful. Similarly, if a physical
interface is a member of a bridge, an attribute pointing to the bridge
interface would be useful.
For DHCP (see Net::DHCP::Packet) being able to get an interface's
arp_type() (i.e. what would be ARPHRD_xxx in /usr/include/net/if_arp.h)
would be useful.