I'm planning to patch winsock (both ws2_32 and wsock32 varieties) so that virtual interfaces will be included in response to IP address/interface list queries. If you'd like different behavior, please speak up (though it's up to Alexandre anyway :) )
More detail: I'm patching wsock32 and winsock to use iphlpapi.dll to enumerate interfaces, get the route table, and that sort of thing. Less code duplication, and I'm trying to isolate the plaform-specific network code to fewer files. (If any of you saw my earlier call for help, the stack corruption was due to socket() mismatching.)
Yet more detail: In writing iphlpapi.dll, I was curious about the code in wsock32 and winsock that tries to filter out virtual interface names (in WSAIOCTL_GetInterfaceName()). So, I tested a little bit with my Linux system, and it seems this code does not behave as desired:
On my system, virtual interfaces don't show up in /proc/net/dev, so the filtering for them seems a little pointless. But if they did show up, the filtering seems counterproductive:
Say you had three interfaces, lo, eth0, and eth0:0. You'd be told (by WSAIOCTL_GetInterfaceCount()) that you have three interfaces, but if you got the names of them, you'd only get two unique names. Furthermore, since the filtered name is what's used for getting the IP address, MAC address, and whatnot, in fact you'd end up with duplicate entries in responses to queries.
I've attached my little test program; try it with and without virtual interfaces to see what I mean.
I also tested how Win2K behaves with multiple IP addresses on an interface. In IP address tables, there's one entry per IP address, as expected. In GetAdaptersInfo, the IP address list has every configured address for the adapter, also I suppose as expected. So, in Win2K, an interface (uniquely identified by an index) can have 0..N IP addresses. I've attached some output from a test program on Win2K to illustrate.
I don't emulate this behavior. Instead, I let an interface have 0 or 1 IP address, and treat virtual interfaces as unique interfaces, with their own index. This makes the code rather simpler. If anyone has a strong opinion otherwise, please speak up.
(Patches coming this week. iphlpapi.dll is working, and wsock32 is using it to implement WsControl now. I want to change iphlpapi a little bit to make it more appropriate for netapi32 before I submit.)
Thanks, --Juan
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GetIpAddrTable returned 3 entries: GetIpAddrTable entry for adapter index 16777219: ip 192.168.1.2 mask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 1.0.0.0 reasm size 65535 GetIpAddrTable entry for adapter index 16777219: ip 10.0.0.1 mask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 1.0.0.0 reasm size 65535 GetIpAddrTable entry for adapter index 1: ip 127.0.0.1 mask 255.0.0.0 broadcast 1.0.0.0 reasm size 65535
GetIfEntry returned 2 entries: GetIfEntry for adapter index 16777219: name: description: Wireless-G Notebook Adapter Type: ethernet physical address: 00:06:25:3d:b5:58 GetIfEntry for adapter index 1: name: description: MS TCP Loopback interface Type: loopback physical address:
See 1 adapters in IP_INTERFACE_INFO Adapter 16777219's name is \DEVICE\TCPIP_{66B081D9-F4E3-4FE8-85CC-0934F6134D44}
GetAdaptersInfo output: Name: {66B081D9-F4E3-4FE8-85CC-0934F6134D44} Description: Wireless-G Notebook Adapter MAC addr: 00:06:25:3d:b5:58 Index: 16777219 Type: ethernet IP addresses: 10.0.0.1/255.255.255.0 192.168.1.2/255.255.255.0 Gateways: 192.168.1.1
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Juan Lang