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| author | Alastair Houghton <alastair@coriolis-systems.com> | 2014-05-01 16:21:34 +0100 |
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| committer | Alastair Houghton <alastair@coriolis-systems.com> | 2014-05-01 16:21:34 +0100 |
| commit | 89a5880600a901af0ab19639a23db43cd32874df (patch) | |
| tree | 656dc228bd3d4742b53ecc22b834f49717c8bffa | |
| parent | bf5c33af471dd221518b3d6ca94f98cfaf8448c7 (diff) | |
| download | netifaces-89a5880600a901af0ab19639a23db43cd32874df.tar.gz | |
Added a note about the gateways() API.
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@@ -145,6 +145,12 @@ the same address family, it's a very good idea to check the documentation for your operating system *very* carefully, as some systems become extremely confused or route packets in a non-obvious manner. +I'm very interested in hearing from anyone (on any platform) for whom the +``gateways()`` method doesn't produce the expected results. It's quite +complicated extracting this information from the operating system (whichever +operating system we're talking about), and so I expect there's at least one +system out there where this just won't work. + 3. This is great! What platforms does it work on? -------------------------------------------------- |