2010/6/14 Ken Conley <
kwc@willowgarage.com>:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Rene Ladan <rene@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> I've also tried adding FreeBSD to the _is_unix_like_platform() list in
>> roslib/network.py but that made roscore incapable of starting (on a
>> 64-bit little endian machine):
>
> That will definitely require it's own branch of logic. That code is trying
> to do the appropriate ioctl incantation to get the full interface list,
> which is very platform specific. BSD/OSX/etc... have their own settings that
> I'd happily accept a patch for.
So if I have e.g. 2 wired cards and 3 wireless cards and a loopback interface it
would return a list of 6 IP addresses? Then the idea of having 6 interfaces is
that different nodes can communicate over different interfaces?
> It's a bit of a soft fail, regardless --
> ROS by default tries to use the hostname instead of IP address, and the main
> purpose of that logic is for generating warnings.
>
Regards,
Rene
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