ifconfig support for Debian stretch
macmpi opened this issue · 3 comments
Hi,
It seems now-stable debian 9.1 "stretch" has slightly changes ifconfig report format:
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.101 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether e8:80:2e:e7:a4:cb txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 2598 bytes 223207 (217.9 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 12 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 1760 bytes 879290 (858.6 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
Therefore the library does not report correct information anymore (ip address for instance).
Any plan for a fix?
Thanks.
Below is the net-tools notice about the format changes that are now part of net-tools 2.10-alpha in Stretch:
net-tools (1.60+git20161116.90da8a0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
After 15 years without upstream development, net-tools is being worked on
again, fixing many long-standing issues.
The bad news is that the output of many commands has changed, and it is sure
to break scripts that relied on parsing it.
If you have customs scripts that use any of these commands, please make sure
they still work after this upgrade:
netstat, ifconfig, ipmaddr, iptunnel, mii-tool, nameif, plipconfig, rarp,
route, slattach, arp.
Apologies in advance for the trouble that this may cause, but maintaining a
separate version of net-tools just to keep the old format is something I am
not able to do.
-- Martín Ferrari tincho@debian.org Mon, 26 Dec 2016 05:29:25 +0000
maybe, it would be more future-proof to base newer version on ip command, that is consistent across the board.
I've updated the parsing to handle this change in the pull request #41 - would be great if we could get this merged soon as it's causing issues for me right now. Going to npm install from github until then.
I've noticed there are quite a few old pull requests - hopefully this isn't a dead repo as it's a really useful project.
Will this change be backward compatible with pre-stretch versions? I am exploring libs to use for a React UX I need to write, and this lib looks dreamy! I am not sure what version of Raspbian I'll end up on, and I'd prefer not to worry about that.
In the mean time, can you share your package.json line for pulling in your version of this lib?