fuchsia.net.interfaces

PROTOCOLS

State

Defined in fuchsia.net.interfaces/interfaces.fidl

Network interface state inspection and observation.

GetWatcher

Initialize a watcher for interface state.

The server enqueues interface addition, deletion and property changes as they occur, which can then be retrieved via the pipelined protocol. If the queue cannot be allocated, the channel will be closed. Also, if the queue is full and a change event cannot be enqueued, the channel will be closed.

• request watcher the protocol channel over which changes can be observed.

Request

Name	Type
options	WatcherOptions
watcher	request<Watcher>

Watcher

Defined in fuchsia.net.interfaces/interfaces.fidl

Observer protocol for changes to network interfaces (addition, deletion, and interface property changes).

Watch

Hanging get for an interface addition/deletion change.

Clients should only have one call of this method at a time; a second call to this method while a call is already pending will cause the channel to be closed.

If there are N interfaces present at the time the channel was initialized, then the first N invocations of this method will return Event.existing followed by a single Event.idle indicating that all existing interfaces have been sent. Subsequent calls will immediately return if there is a change to be reported, or block until a change occurs.

The server may choose to coalesce property change events, e.g. when multiple independent property changes occur. As a result, clients cannot assume that the order in which they observe the interface changes is the order in which the changes occurred.

• response event the interface change event. Properties of an added or existing interface will have all fields present. Property change events will always have the interface ID field present (the ID never changes); while other fields will only be present with the new value if the property has changed.

Request

Name	Type

Response

Name	Type
event	Event

STRUCTS

Empty

Defined in fuchsia.net.interfaces/interfaces.fidl

Name	Type	Description	Default

TABLES

Address

Defined in fuchsia.net.interfaces/interfaces.fidl

An address and its properties.

Ordinal	Name	Type	Description
1	addr	fuchsia.net/Subnet	The address and prefix length.
2	valid_until	zx/time	The time after which the address will no longer be valid. Its value must be greater than 0. A value of ZX_TIME_INFINITE indicates that the address will always be valid. The value is derived from the monotonic clock. As a zx.time, the value has monotonic clock semantics, which implies that it has no meaning outside of the host on which it was generated and no meaning across host restarts.

Properties

Defined in fuchsia.net.interfaces/interfaces.fidl

Properties of a network interface.

Ordinal	Name	Type	Description
1	id	fuchsia.net/interface_id	An opaque identifier for the interface. Its value will not be reused even if the device is removed and subsequently re-added. Immutable.
2	addresses	vector<Address>	The addresses currently assigned to the interface.
3	online	bool	The device is enabled and its physical state is online.
4	device_class	DeviceClass	The device class of the interface. Immutable.
5	has_default_ipv4_route	bool	Whether there is a default IPv4 route through this interface.
6	has_default_ipv6_route	bool	Whether there is a default IPv6 route through this interface.
7	name	fuchsia.posix.socket/interface_name	The name of the interface. Immutable.

WatcherOptions

Defined in fuchsia.net.interfaces/interfaces.fidl

Options for configuring the interface state watcher.

Ordinal	Name	Type	Description

UNIONS

DeviceClass

Defined in fuchsia.net.interfaces/interfaces.fidl

An interface's device class.

Name	Type	Description
loopback	Empty	The interface is loopback.
device	fuchsia.hardware.network/DeviceClass	The interface's network device class.

Event

Defined in fuchsia.net.interfaces/interfaces.fidl

An interface-state change event.

Name	Type	Description
existing	Properties	Properties of an interface that existed when watching started. All fields are set.
added	Properties	Properties of an interface that was added while watching. All fields are set.
removed	fuchsia.net/interface_id	ID of an interface that was removed while watching.
changed	Properties	Properties of an interface that changed while watching. Only Properties.id and changed fields are set.
idle	Empty	Sentinel value indicating no more existing events will be sent.