SVN 3080: NIC Registration

[Tom Elliott]

Typos are perfectly fine, just as long as I can see them and correct them.

I’m wondering, though, would it be better to assign all found mac’s that are connected with splice character that we already use?

we have a function called parseMacList which uses a delimiter of | (pipe) symbol to break apart and find hosts. Using this same principle, if the returned string (base 64 decoded as needed) comes back with | I can explode it out from there and just add all the mac’s to the additional mac list of the relevant host.

Example (I know I can do it, but i’m being particularly lazy today and possibly this week as both my wife and I are currently sick or something)

00:12:34:56:78:01|23:45:67:89:01:23|45:67:89:01:23:45

[Tom Elliott]

And I can see you already thought of that…

[cspence]

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 43613, member: 7271”]And I can see you already thought of that…[/quote]

I was about to say…

[Tom Elliott]

I’ll build a function rather than code this into the individually requested files.

I’ll have to adjust the service scripts so they no longer look for HWAddr in the fields, but I think it better to scan only for the mac addresses.

[cspence]

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 43616, member: 7271”]I’ll build a function rather than code this into the individually requested files.

I’ll have to adjust the service scripts so they no longer look for HWAddr in the fields, but I think it better to scan only for the mac addresses.[/quote]

Sounds better to me.

[Tom Elliott]

Oh, i do have a thought though.

Using the generate our interfaces file on the fly method, I can add the e-polling capabilities of the kernel to use more proper methods of device management. This means not all devices will automatically have eth* names, but rather whatever the device is. Is there a simpler way without designating the specific devices to search for?

[Tom Elliott]

I wonder
[code]for macline in $(ip addr show | grep link/ether|awk ‘{print $2}’); do
# Add a pipe before adding more MACs
if [ -n “$mac” ]; then
mac=$mac|
fi
done[/code]

This, from what I can tell, should allow us to just echo back the mac variable and we don’t need the xargs and cut commands to operate as the only things returned is our pipe delimited list of MAC Addresses.

[Tom Elliott]

[code]# Get All Active MAC Addresses
getMACAddresses()
{
IFS=$‘\n’
# Create a pipe-separated MAC List
for macline in $(ip addr | grep link/ether | awk ‘{print $2}’); do
# Add a pipe before adding more MACs
if [ -n “$mac” ]; then
mac=$mac|
fi
mac=$macecho $macline;
done
IFS=
echo $mac
}[/code]

[cspence]

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 43618, member: 7271”]Oh, i do have a thought though.

Using the generate our interfaces file on the fly method, I can add the e-polling capabilities of the kernel to use more proper methods of device management. This means not all devices will automatically have eth* names, but rather whatever the device is. Is there a simpler way without designating the specific devices to search for?[/quote]

[CODE]# Set for loop delimiters to just newline
IFS=$‘\n’

Create a pipe-separated MAC list

for macline in $(ip addr | grep link/ether)
do
# Add a pipe before adding more MACs
if [ -n “$mac” ]; then
mac=$mac|
fi
mac=$macecho $macline | xargs | cut -d ' ' -f 2
done

Reset delimiters

IFS=[/CODE]

I just realized I was doing a grep on link/ether so that doesn’t include lo. Enjoy!

[Sebastian Roth]

Not using any extra ip tools … /sys/class/net/*/address …

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[code]# Get All Active MAC Addresses
getMACAddresses()
{
IFS=$‘\n’
# Create a pipe-separated MAC List
for macline in $(ip addr | grep link/ether | awk ‘{print $2}’); do
# Add a pipe before adding more MACs
if [ -n “$mac” ]; then
mac=$mac|
fi
mac=${mac}${macline};
done
IFS=
echo $mac
}[/code]

Caught a bug with your final mac= statement. Also, “ip addr” is fine by itself.

[Tom Elliott]

yeah I saw and edited. The echo needs to occur there. and I am using just ip addr

[Tom Elliott]

[quote=“Uncle Frank, post: 43623, member: 28116”]Not using any extra ip tools … /sys/class/net/*/address …[/quote]

We have to know the exact path name, so it’s simpler to just use the tools that get that for us I think.

[Sebastian Roth]

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 43626, member: 7271”]We have to know the exact path name, so it’s simpler to just use the tools that get that for us I think.[/quote]
I don’t think so…
[CODE]# Get All Active MAC Addresses
getMACAddresses()
{
IFS=$‘\n’
# Create a pipe-separated MAC List
for macline in $(cat /sys/class/net/*/address); do
# Add a pipe before adding more MACs
if [ -n “$mac” ]; then
mac=$mac|
fi
mac=${mac}${macline};
done
IFS=
echo $mac
}[/CODE]
No ip, no awk, no grep…

[Sebastian Roth]

And I still wonder, why do we need the IFS here??

[cspence]

[quote=“Uncle Frank, post: 43627, member: 28116”]I don’t think so…
[CODE]# Get All Active MAC Addresses
getMACAddresses()
{
IFS=$‘\n’
# Create a pipe-separated MAC List
for macline in $(cat /sys/class/net/*/address); do
# Add a pipe before adding more MACs
if [ -n “$mac” ]; then
mac=$mac|
fi
mac=${mac}${macline};
done
IFS=
echo $mac
}[/CODE]
No ip, no awk, no grep…[/quote]

It grabs lo’s MAC. But I like where this is going…

[Sebastian Roth]

[CODE]… cat /sys/class/net/???*/address …[/CODE] kind of hackish but…

[cspence]

How low can we go?

[CODE]# Get All Active MAC Addresses
getMACAddresses()
{
lomac=00:00:00:00:00:00
cat /sys/class/net/*/address | grep -v $lomac | tr ‘\n’ ‘|’ | sed s/.$//g
}[/CODE]

[Sebastian Roth]

sed, grep, tr and all the rest are very nice but we don’t really need them here, do we?
[CODE]… cat /sys/class/net/[^l][^o]*/address …[/CODE]

And still wondering about if ‘IFS’ is needed here. Sorry goto go now.

[Tom Elliott]

I like it