On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Brad Fisher wrote:
> I'm a bit new at this, but I don't quite understand why assigning an
> IP address would have anything to do with his layer 1 device problem.
> Please explain the relationship.
The axconfig library routines get the information about available
interfaces using a ioctl(SIOCGIFCONF) system call (SIOCGIFCONF = Socket
I/O Control Get InterFace CONFig). An interface can only appear on that
list if it has an IP address. Thus an interface without an IP address
appears un-available to the ax25 utilities.
That is the immediate reason for the error message one gets. There may be
deeper reasons in the kernel networking that would prevent things from
working even if SIOCGIFCONF did give information about interfaces without
IP address. I don't know. And frankly, given that the workaround is so
easy (just give the damn IP address, use a private network address if you
don't have your own), it won't be very high at least on my priority list
of things to be fixed...
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