bug#52520: Multicast is off by default

2021-12-21 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey, > BTW, for the purposes of fixing the bug you initially reported, I > suggest simply adding #:multicast-on #t as you initially proposed. > We discuss the proper API separately. Done with: d2f9578a9f1249dfecb0a6b4cd06fd9641fcd1a9. Thanks, Mathieu

bug#52520: Multicast is off by default

2021-12-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mathieu Othacehe skribis: >> Can we instead use for these purposes? It is already >> there, just unused. BTW, for the purposes of fixing the bug you initially reported, I suggest simply adding #:multicast-on #t as you initially proposed. We discuss the proper API separately. > Mmh, indeed. We

bug#52520: Multicast is off by default

2021-12-20 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey, > Can we instead use for these purposes? It is already > there, just unused. Mmh, indeed. Well it is already used to create vlan and veth interfaces. What we could do then, is expose the record as a direct equivalent of the Guile-Netlink record. The links list of the record would con

bug#52520: Multicast is off by default

2021-12-20 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello, Mathieu Othacehe writes: > Hey, > >> Is it #:multicast-on or #:allmulticast-on ? > > The "ip link set multicast ..." command corresponds to the the > IFF_MULTICAST flag hence to the #:multicast-on parameter. > >> Anyhow, I suggest adding a ‘multicast?’ field to , with >> #t as its default

bug#52520: Multicast is off by default

2021-12-19 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey, > Is it #:multicast-on or #:allmulticast-on ? The "ip link set multicast ..." command corresponds to the the IFF_MULTICAST flag hence to the #:multicast-on parameter. > Anyhow, I suggest adding a ‘multicast?’ field to , with > #t as its default value, and honoring this. I'm not sure is

bug#52520: Multicast is off by default

2021-12-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Mathieu Othacehe skribis: > Since the guile-netlink switch the static IP interfaces no longer have > multicast support. This can be confirmed this way: [...] > I think that we could maybe apply the following patch, even though I > didn't test it. > > diff --git a/gnu/services/base.scm b/gn

bug#52520: Multicast is off by default

2021-12-15 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hello, Since the guile-netlink switch the static IP interfaces no longer have multicast support. This can be confirmed this way: --8<---cut here---start->8--- 4: eno4: mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ether b0:26:28:b7:9d:09 b