Trying to select IP version on connect and question of language bindings for libmbim

[Neal Gompa]

​I'm more than aware what the spec does and does not offer. In fact, I was
even aware it is non-standard for network interfaces to work properly with
dhclient. That's why I upgraded the libmbim version so that mbimcli would
return the IP address, gateway, etc. that the mobile network returned on
connect so that I can enter in the values manually.

Also, I don't work at a telecommunications company. The fact that you
assumed it and then blasted me for it is terrible. FYI, I'm not using
NetworkManager+ModemManager on my box (instead, I'm using ifcfg scripts).
​Right now, I'm writing scripts to parse mbimcli output, and I was hoping I
could just write Python code to libmbim directly if it were possible. I'm
not a good C programmer, but I'm fairly good with Python. Frankly, looking
at libmbim C code confuses me.

I wasn't even asking for someone to do something for me. I was asking if
there was a way with libmbim to be able to pass what type of IP connection
I want to have (IPv4, IPv6, or IPv4+IPv6) on the connect command in mbimcli.


On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Markus Gothe <nietzsche at lysator.liu.se>
wrote:

> I guess with von Neumann-logic there is a tristate-based truth.
>
> I hope this give you the guts to figure out the basics yourself.
>
> Seriously; if and only if you had read the specification you would find
> out that MBIM does NOT give you an IP-configuration based on DHCP per
> specification (if you got it by DHCP the vendor was very generous and
> implemented a DHCP-server).
>
> Implement your own bindings… or ask someone at Airtel or whatever company
> you are doing this work for to do it. I hate when people ask about help for
> their office work and not trying their best or asking the best people to
> try doing it. There does exist commercial solutions for that, use them.
>
> So better, for all of us, you tell your boss to buy a commercial solution.
> Goes without saying.
>
> //M
>
> On 31 Jul 2015, at 23:10 , Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to use mbimcli to connect to the Internet using my mobile
> broadband card (Telit LN930) on CentOS 7.1, which has
> libmbim-1.5.0-3.20130815git. Using it, I was able to establish a
> connection, but I had no IP address information since dhclient doesn't work
> on the modem. So, I upgraded to 1.12 and applied the patch from this
> mailing list as a new custom package. After that point, I was able to
> connect, but I appeared to be unable to be able to connect in such a way
> that I could force the bearer to be IPv4, IPv6, or IPv4+IPv6. Am I missing
> something that would make this possible?
>
> Also, are there bindings to other languages for libmbim or something that
> I can use to talk to mbim modems from a language that isn't C/C++ (like
> Python, for example)?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Neal
>
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