[Cppcms-users] Design decision

[Christian G. <chr...@gm...>]

Hi all.

My cppcms based web application is in a quite good shape and I got
some ideas what
new features could be added.

+ Detection of networking changes via PF_NETLINK socket

At the moment it is possible to configure networking settings via
cppcms. For instance,
it is possible to use manual mode for an ethernet interface to specify
ip. netmask etc. or
use DHCP mode. If DHCP gets used the running system starts dhcp client
and it could
takes some seconds until it got a valid IP address.

The basic idea is now to use SSE (server send events) and some
detection threads.

Create a (cppcms ?) thread per ethernet interface and run something like
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/579783/how-to-detect-ip-address-change-programmatically-in-linux

Then I would have a singleton class for SSE where I can call e.g.
SSE::instance()->ethernet("eth0", ip,...) and my front-end can update
the values.

Can this work?


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Christian Gmeiner, MSc