Re: multiple services in one vm?

Mark Brouwer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.sun.jini
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Niclas Hedhman wrote:
> On Friday 19 January 2007 19:27, Mark Brouwer wrote:
>> Dan Creswell wrote:
>>> Sure you know this but it's worth saying:
>>>
>>> Just be wary because eth0 might not always be the right/valid interface.
>> FWIW from the FAQ for Seven:
>>
>> "You can find out the name of your NIC with ifconfig -a or netstat -i.
>> For Windows it is not that easy to find the adapter name to use for
>> configuration purposes, but it seems that if you execute ipconfig /all
>> the first ethernet adapter listed is named eth0, the second eth1, etc."
>>
>> If somebody knows a better way, please let me know.
>
> Never tried it, but is there anything wrong with;
>
>  java.net.NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces();
>
> And then from that iterate the InetAddress instances and see if they are
> multicast capable.

I guess you mean the above as an auto-configuration option instead of
the current behavior where all interface are expected to be multicast
capable? I see no problem with that but it might hide the fact
interfaces are ignored due to misconfiguration. Always hard to tell what
the best way is to deal with these issues ...
--
Mark

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