lxi_discover_if(3)

💖 lxi_discover_if — bestie edition 💖

okay so real talk, this is a page from the C Library Functions section of the manual (yes, section 3, the "library calls" girlies), and it's all about lxi_discover_if — the function that goes looking for LXI devices on your network, but through one specific network interface you pick. slay.

✨ NAME ✨

lxi_discover_if — literally searches for LXI devices on the network, but via the network interface you specify. no cap. 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <lxi.h>

int lxi_discover_if(lxi_info_t *info, const char *ifname, int timeout,
lxi_discover_t type);

like... look at her. iconic signature. 💅

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so here's the tea, bestie 🍓: lxi_discover_if() does exactly the same thing as lxi_discover() — no difference, same energy, same behavior, periodt — but it adds one extra parameter called ifname on top. 🫶

and what does ifname do?? it's the name of the network interface to broadcast on. that's it. that's the whole job. but the way that it only matters when you're using the DISCOVER_VXI11 discovery type... it's giving "only here for one specific occasion" and honestly? respect. 👑

💀 important though: the ifname parameter gets ignored for every other discovery type. so if you're not doing DISCOVER_VXI11, she's just sitting there, unbothered, unused. don't come for her, she's fine. 🙈

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• lxi_discover(3) — the original, the blueprint, the main character she's building on 🌸

and that's the whole page, bestie!! mwah 💋 this lil beauty lives in liblxi 1.22 and the date on it is 2024-11-08 — so yeah, she's recent, she's relevant, she ate and left no crumbs. go find your devices, queen 👑✨💖