One other thing to mention; the reason we don't support win2k is that we don't run win2k anywhere. We're writing the toolkit in a way that we hope ensures no backward problems, but we are also leveraging the nice new features of the latest OS's.
At some point it's likely we'll introduce a feature or bug that will disable the "accidental" backward compatibility that exists for platforms like win2k (this already happens on linux where old os's, ahem, RH7.X don't have python 2.3.3+). We're more than happy for someone else to tinker with this and see if there's a reasonable solution, but we're not going to start adding support for legacy OS's; not unless someone wants to start paying us to do that -- we've got enough interesting research moving forward. Cheers, --Ivan > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov > [mailto:owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Ivan R. Judson > Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 9:01 PM > To: 'Randy Groves'; ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov > Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] Possible enhancement for Toolkit > > > The toolkit is already handling the case where the machine > has multiple network adapters; indeed almost all laptops have > both wireless and wired connections, mine which I use for > development has the following: > > NetWork Card(s): 3 NIC(s) Installed. > [01]: Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network > Connection > Connection Name: Fast Ethernet > Status: Media disconnected > [02]: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 > LAN 3B Mini PCI Adapter > Connection Name: Wireless > Network Connection > DHCP Enabled: Yes > DHCP Server: 10.0.1.65 > IP address(es) > [01]: 10.0.1.17 > [03]: Cisco Systems VPN Adapter > Connection Name: MCS VPN > DHCP Enabled: No > IP address(es) > [01]: 140.221.18.114 > > Plus, add the vmware interfaces, MS's fancy ipv4/ipv6 > tunnels, teredo, et al and you'll find that on XP the toolkit > is doing quite a good job of working in the face of *many* > network interfaces ;) > > Here's my development desktop net interfaces: > > NetWork Card(s): 4 NIC(s) Installed. > [01]: 3Com 3C920 Integrated Fast > Ethernet Controller (3C905C-TX Compatible) > Connection Name: Wired > DHCP Enabled: Yes > DHCP Server: 140.221.11.6 > IP address(es) > [01]: 140.221.34.71 > [02]: VMware Virtual Ethernet > Adapter for VMnet1 > Connection Name: VMware > Network Adapter > VMnet1 > [03]: VMware Virtual Ethernet > Adapter for VMnet8 > Connection Name: VMware > Network Adapter > VMnet8 > [04]: 1394 Net Adapter > Connection Name: 1394 Connection 2 > DHCP Enabled: Yes > DHCP Server: N/A > IP address(es) > > What kind of a feature are you looking for? What's the use > case you're experiencing? What problem are you trying to solve? > > --Ivan > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov > > [mailto:owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Randy Groves > > Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 8:38 PM > > To: ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov > > Subject: [AG-TECH] Possible enhancement for Toolkit > > > > My recent experience with the 'Microsoft TV/Video' network > connection > > brings to mind an enhancement. It would be nice if, during the > > install (and maybe accessible later via a python script), if the > > Toolkit finds more than one network adaptor installed on > the machine, > > it would ask the installer which one it should use. This > would have > > made it obvious in my case, but also would handle the case > where there > > REALLY is more than one network adaptor in a machine. I know that > > I've also seen a 1394 network adaptor installed on various machines > > with FireWire adaptors. > > > > I will enter this in Bugzilla if it sounds like a good idea. > > > > -randy > > > > > >
