// $Id$
//
// Copyright (C) 2007
-// Fraunhofer Institut fuer offene Kommunikationssysteme (FOKUS)
-// Kompetenzzentrum fuer Satelitenkommunikation (SatCom)
-// Thorsten Horstmann <thorsten.horstmann@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
+// Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS)
+// Competence Center NETwork research (NET), St. Augustin, GERMANY
+// Thorsten Horstmann <tho@berlios.de>
//
// This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
/** \brief NetdeviceController
\todo document me
+ \todo Add 'promisc' member to enable/disable promiscuous mode
*/
class NetdeviceController
{
NetdeviceController(int interface_index);
virtual ~NetdeviceController();
- MACAddress hardwareAddress();
- std::string interfaceName();
- int interfaceIndex();
- int mtu();
- void mtu(int new_mtu);
+ int interfaceIndex() const; ///< return the interface index
+ MACAddress hardwareAddress() const; ///< return hardware address
+ void hardwareAddress(const MACAddress &newAddress); ///< set hardware address
+
+ std::string interfaceName() const; ///< return interface name
+ void interfaceName(const std::string &newName) const; ///< set interface name
+
+ int mtu() const; ///< return the Maximum Transmission Unit
+ void mtu(int new_mtu) const; //< set the Maximum Transmission Unit
+
private:
void openSocket();
- void doIoctl(ifreq& ifr, int request);
- void set_ifr_name(ifreq& ifr);
+ void doIoctl(ifreq& ifr, int request) const;
+ void ifrName(ifreq& ifr) const;
int sockfd_;
int ifindex_;
};