[vbox-dev] [PATCH] Implement media state for host-only interface

[Alexander Eichner]

Hi Ed,

applied the patch with minor modifications, thanks!

Regards,
Alexander Eichner

On 30.08.2012 23:23, Ed Maste wrote:

> I have an application that issues SIOCGIFMEDIA to check interface media
> status, and logs an error when that fails on a vboxnet interface.
> 
> This change is based on the same support added to FreeBSD's if_tap
> interface in SVN r238183, which is in turn based on DragonFly BSD commit
> 70d9a675bf5441cc854a843ead702d08928c37f3.  Sponsored by ADARA Networks.
> 
> Ideally status would report 'active' only when a VM is attached to the
> host-only interface, but I don't see a straightforward way to do so with
> the decoupling between VBoxNetFlt and VBoxNetAdp -- so consider this a
> query for further information on this point as well.  As it stands it
> reports 'active' always.
> 
> Patch released under the MIT license.
> 
> diff --git a/src/VBox/HostDrivers/VBoxNetAdp/freebsd/VBoxNetAdp-freebsd.c b/src/VBox/HostDrivers/VBoxNetAdp/freebsd/VBoxNetAdp-freebsd.c
> index 1b65cc4..42cdd3e 100644
> --- a/src/VBox/HostDrivers/VBoxNetAdp/freebsd/VBoxNetAdp-freebsd.c
> +++ b/src/VBox/HostDrivers/VBoxNetAdp/freebsd/VBoxNetAdp-freebsd.c
> @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
> #include <net/if_var.h>
> #include <net/route.h>
> #include <net/if_dl.h>
> +#include <net/if_media.h>
> #include <net/if_types.h>
> #include <net/ethernet.h>
> #include <net/bpf.h>
> @@ -246,6 +247,10 @@ static void VBoxNetAdpFreeBSDNetstart(struct ifnet *ifp)
>  */
> static int VBoxNetAdpFreeBSDNetioctl(struct ifnet *ifp, u_long cmd, caddr_t data)
> {
> +    struct ifmediareq *ifmr;
> +    int count;
> +    int error = 0;
> +
>     switch (cmd)
>     {
>         case SIOCSIFFLAGS:
> @@ -260,10 +265,23 @@ static int VBoxNetAdpFreeBSDNetioctl(struct ifnet *ifp, u_long cmd, caddr_t data
>                     ifp->if_drv_flags &= ~IFF_DRV_RUNNING;
>             }
>             break;
> +        case SIOCGIFMEDIA:
> +            ifmr = (struct ifmediareq *)data;
> +            count = ifmr->ifm_count;
> +            ifmr->ifm_count = 1;
> +            ifmr->ifm_status = IFM_AVALID;
> +            ifmr->ifm_active = IFM_ETHER;
> +            ifmr->ifm_status |= IFM_ACTIVE;
> +            ifmr->ifm_current = ifmr->ifm_active;
> +            if (count >= 1) {
> +                int media = IFM_ETHER;
> +                error = copyout(&media, ifmr->ifm_ulist, sizeof(int));
> +            }
> +            break;
>         default:
>             return ether_ioctl(ifp, cmd, data);
>     }
> -    return 0;
> +    return error;
> }
> 
> int vboxNetAdpOsInit(PVBOXNETADP pThis)
> 
> 
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