Hello,
I've looked through a bunch of network interface crates. None of them have the letters "MTU" in any docs, issues, or structs. I must be thinking about something incorrectly. I don't know much about libc and less about the Windows equivalent.
Would be great if worked on macos and windows too.
Some examples
_pnet - Rust
_network_interface - Rust
(forum won't let me post many links as a new user)
This might have something, but it's netlink only
You can do it with neli, but as you said it's netlink only. It's also not trivial — you need to know the netlink protocols. I don't think there's a cross-platform solution.
Is the MTU of the local interface really all that useful? I thought one needed to do Path MTU Discovery - Wikipedia to figure it out for a particular endpoint.
Thank you.
I hate when this happens. I set out on some small trivial thing and then...
For some applications!
I have a different program, not written in rust, which sets up interfaces. I thought I'd make some integrationy tests and get a little better at rust. MTU is just one of the things to check. I can just punt on MTU for now and do the rest I guess.
The other motivation to use rust is it supports more platforms than some of the other options I'm semi competent in.
The information can be found in /sys/class/net/*/mtu in linux, which I recognise is not the ideal approach you're looking for. A search for the C struct ifreq in Rust projects seems to indicate no standard crate for this, unfortunately.
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