Bug #2563
closed
Multicast faces are reported as point-to-point
Added by Davide Pesavento about 9 years ago.
Updated about 9 years ago.
Description
nfd-status -f shows all faces, including multicast ones, as "point-to-point". IIUC multicast faces should be reported as "multi-access".
There are actually two bugs here:
Face::copyStatusTo does not set the flag in FaceTraits, which therefore defaults to LINK_TYPE_POINT_TO_POINT.EthernetFace does not override isMultiAccess to return true (but MulticastUdpFace does).
- Status changed from New to In Progress
- Assignee set to Davide Pesavento
I'm also wondering... isMultiAccess and isLocal are similar properties, i.e. they both indicate a trait of the face that cannot change during its lifetime (as opposed to an administrative setting that can be changed later on, such as isOnDemand). Yet they're implemented in different ways. isMultiAccess is a virtual getter method, while isLocal is a member field set via a constructor argument and with a non-virtual getter. Can we be more uniform?
I agree with Davide that we should be consistent and I like the idea of defining non-virtual getter for isMultiAccess (+ constructor argument for face classes)
- Status changed from In Progress to Code review
- % Done changed from 0 to 40
- Status changed from Code review to In Progress
Status shall be kept in "In Progress" until the final commit is uploaded.
- Status changed from In Progress to Code review
- % Done changed from 40 to 100
- Status changed from Code review to Closed
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