Towards keyword does not work properly

[ManiAm]

Consider the following network:

with this configuration:

*.configurator.config = xml("<config> \
                            <interface hosts='R2' towards='switch2' address='1.1.1.1' netmask='255.255.255.0' /> \
                            <interface hosts='**' address='10.x.x.x' netmask='255.x.x.x' /> \
                             </config>")

The toward attribute does not have any effects. If we use names='eth0' then we get the expected result.

[levy]

Actually it works this way by design. The Ethernet switches are L2 devices, and as such they are not part of the IP address assignment and static routing configuration done by the Ipv4NetworkConfigurator module.

Nevertheless, the configuration you are trying to use makes perfect sense, but it's not trivial to change the code to support it.