[coherence-dev] How to config the Coherence to work under multiple physical interfaces surrounding?

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From: "Frank Scholz" <fs at beebits.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 4:42 AM
To: "discussions about development and usage issues of Coherence" 
<coherence-dev at lists.beebits.net>
Subject: Re: [coherence-dev] How to config the Coherence to work under 
multiple physical interfaces surrounding?

> Hi,
>
>> How can i get the interface name to configure coherence to use the wifi
>> interface ?
>>
>> I can find the name "wlan0" on Linux , but I can see nothing about the
>> interface alias such
>> as "eth0" on win32. Where can i found it?
> isn't there an 'ifconfig' command on Windows too? That should display
> the available interfaces.

The similar command on win32 is ipconfig, but it doesn't show any network 
interface alias.

>
> On Windows I recommend to use the netifaces module, the plain python
> methods to determine the interface to use don't work that well there.
>
>> And one more question, how Coherence determind which interface to use
>> without the config file
>> or without the interface configuration item under multiple pyhysical
>> interfaces surrounding?
>
> Atm Coherence does only support one active interface - this will change
> on the way to 0.7.

That's really a good news for us who want a more powerful MediaServer 
Framework.

>
> We try first to get the hostname and resolving that to an IP address.
> If that fails or we get a loopback address back, we switch to plan b.
>
> On Windows we use the first interface we get back from netifaces and
> use that IP address. On Linux/BSD/OS-X we try either to parse
> '/proc/net/route' or the output of the 'route -a' command to
> determine the interface used for the default route, which on
> a single homed host is usually the interface to use.

BTW, can someone suggest any primer studying materials for a newbie of UPnP 
just like me?

>
> Regards,
> Frank
>
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