[Goodies-dev] [Bug 9101] [PATCH] Add network device combobox

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9101

Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet at xfce.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Mike Massonnet <mmassonnet at xfce.org> ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> * Get list of detected network interfaces
> * Platform specific code can be easily added; so far only Linux implemented

It's possible to look into libgtop:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/libgtop/tree/sysdeps (/*/netlist.c)

- Linux: http://git.gnome.org/browse/libgtop/tree/sysdeps/linux/netlist.c
- FreeBSD: http://git.gnome.org/browse/libgtop/tree/sysdeps/freebsd/netlist.c

Under Linux the list of devices is available through different means. Libgtop
looks into /proc/net/dev, but it doesn't tell if the devices are up or not.
(It's possible to look into /sys/class/net/<DEVICE>/operstate for that (the
sysfs is officially available since Linux 2.6).)

Under FreeBSD the devices are fetched with builtin functionnality <net/if.h>.
This is POSIX and therefore works cross-platform.
http://pwet.fr/man/linux/conventions/posix/if_h

Code can be copied from the libgtop project, there is netlist (list of devices)
and netload (state of devices, up or down, bytes exchanged, etc).

(In reply to comment #0)
> * Replace network device entry box with combobox
> * Populate new combobox with list of detected network interfaces
> * Allow for a network device to still be entered manually, so old
> functionality retained

The GtkComboBoxEntry widget is done for that.

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