From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.67.24.4 with SMTP id ie4mr4772322pad.21.1461972932691; Fri, 29 Apr 2016 16:35:32 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.182.27.8 with SMTP id p8mr305440obg.19.1461972932547; Fri, 29 Apr 2016 16:35:32 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!sq19no466041igc.0!news-out.google.com!uv8ni146igb.0!nntp.google.com!i5no194592ige.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 16:35:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <276b8c43-7280-48ad-94be-c8324c6ae326@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=173.228.47.49; posting-account=YzTo_woAAACFz9q5E9N-PP-H6MKsGvrr NNTP-Posting-Host: 173.228.47.49 References: <276b8c43-7280-48ad-94be-c8324c6ae326@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Broadcasting UDP From: douty.chris@gmail.com Injection-Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 23:35:32 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:30322 Date: 2016-04-29T16:35:32-07:00 List-Id: On Sunday, April 24, 2016 at 9:31:49 AM UTC-7, ahlan.m...@gmail.com wrote: [cut] > If there is no Ada way of iterating over the ethernet adapters then I wil= l have to do a separate implementation for each platform. > In which case I would be grateful if anyone could tell me how I can itera= te my adapters under Linux and OSX. >=20 > Best wishes, > Ahlan Dmitry and other have shown you good code, but networking in general and yo= ur requirement in particular are inherently platform-specific. You will nee= d to consult your target OS documentation to learn how to discover availabl= e network interfaces. You might create some generic Ada wrapper over this, = but each OS will have its own method of enumerating interfaces. Honestly I don't remember how to do it on Linux. Take a look at SIOCGIFCONF= in the netdevice(7) man page on Linux or netintro(4) man page on OS X. I d= on't have a Windows machine. Good luck, Chris