On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 12:44:30 GMT, Daniel Jeliński <djelin...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> I searched for other WinAPIs of interest; > [GetIfStackTable](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/netioapi/nf-netioapi-getifstacktable) > caught my attention. > As far as I could see, the network interfaces are arranged in a stack with > many filter interfaces stacked on top of a single non-filter interface. All > interfaces in a stack return the same values from `isUp`, `isPointToPoint`, > `isLoopback` and `getHardwareAddress`. The filter interfaces do not have any > IP addresses, and are not usable with multicast sockets. > I'm not sure how we could put that information to use. Ideas welcome. Is there anything practical a Java Application could do with these interfaces? Except displaying them for debugging purposes? I mean - for instance - would it work if you tried, or are there case where it would be necessary, to set one of these as the outgoing interface of a multicast socket? Otherwise maybe we could just filter the filters out for now... ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12593
