how does xwin resolve ip addresses
Alexander Gottwald
Alexander.Gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de
Sat Nov 2 07:51:00 GMT 2002
Chris Twiner wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a problem using a wireless card (3com) on my home network. I have a
> basic wireless setup and a switched setup (for my servers). When using the
> wireless card I can use the internet fully and most applications are happy
> with it. Bizarly though ipconfig /all doesn't list the wireless card as an
> ip adapter.
I have build a small test program, which extracts the network interface
adapters from the system. Please try it and mail the result. It will help
me figuring out the problems.
http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/ls_netdev.tar.gz
(http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/index.php3?jump=xfree#ls_netdev)
> When trying to use cygwin/xfree on the address (given by dhcp) the xserver
> doesn't work i.e. no clients can bind to it. Is the discovery mechanism for
> the ip address using the same as ipconfig does and hence can't see it?
I don't know which API ipconfig is using but I think it's the same interface
as the cygwin.dll uses. If it's not listed it might have various reasons:
- ipconfig does not know what a wireless lan is and does not display it
- MS has build a new API for listing wireless lan interfaces
- Something is really broken
- and many more
The output of ls_netdev will hopefully give me more hints.
bye
ago
NP: grauzone.02-09-23
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