[PATCH] mbimcli: report IP configuration on connect

[Aleksander Morgado]

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no> wrote:
>>> It's an EM7345. ipv6 connections work fine using modemmager, when specifying the appropriate ip-type. I just don't know how to force ipv6 or ipv4v6 using mbimcli.
>>>
>>
>> Not yet done. We should extend --connect="..." to allow passing
>> specific ip-type, including: ipv4, ipv6, ipv4v6, ipv4+ipv6
>
> Urrhm, I don't dare trying to do that ;-)
>
> I recently did a quick hack to be able to test the same functionality in
> umbim, and that hack ended up umodified in the repo:
>
> http://git.openwrt.org/?p=project/umbim.git;a=commitdiff;h=af9c293c1f1d8a97fbd8adf9c6070ead4920ca84
>
> I'm not at all sure that prefixing the APN this way was smart.  It was
> simply an easy way to hack around the issue there and then...
>
> But both umbim and mbimcli has the problem that the connect command
> should be able to take a large number of optional parameters.  Extending
> the syntax to allow that isn't so easy.  It's already overloaded enough
> by the authentication parameters.
>
> So I trust that you and Dan know how to do these user interface things
> properly :-)

I personally like the way parameters are passed in mmcli (not
mbimcli); e.g. "var1=something,var2=someotherthing,var3=....".  So,
not really depending on passing arguments in specific positions on a
comma separated list, but prefixing each of the arguments with the
actual type (e.g. var1 and var2 could be "apn" and "ip-type" here).


-- 
Aleksander
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