[Qt-interest] QtNetwork and raw ethernet properties

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday 09 December 2008 09:35:18 Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> > In any case, changing MAC address is such a rare operation that I doubt
> > we'd add it.
> >  
>
> Well, this kind of things is pretty useful for the telco industry (i.e.
> big money), maybe you should reconsider ;-)

I doubt our position will change here.

Like I said, this still pretty rare. Not to mention that all operating systems 
where Qt is supported think changing the MAC address is a privileged 
operation.

Not only that, on Linux you need to disable the interface first before 
changing the address. That's an operation a system administrator should do, 
manually. Not an application on its own.

> > Setting the TOS bits on TCP packets may be a future feature, since it's
> > not a privileged operation (setsockopt(2) and IP_TOS). But it's currently
> > not supported either.
> >  
>
> Looking forward to it :-)
> If I may add a few feature requests:
> - vlan tagging
> - checking IP range address (multicast, unicast, IGMP)

Please send your feature requests to the task tracker, otherwise we'll surely 
forget them :-)

As for IP range checking, what do you mean? We currently don't support 
multicast, but it's a requested feature already. And joining multicast groups 
requires IGMP.

>- a new QIOdevice subclass able to send raw ethernet data (no TCP nor UDP).

Another privileged operation.

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