From b96e1596b2253b52b7ec8f5d0130dcb692097fef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bob Lantz <rlantz@cs.stanford.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:02:38 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Change to use Intf() class rather than string for interface.

Was broken in 2.0.0rc1
---
 examples/hwintf.py | 15 ++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/examples/hwintf.py b/examples/hwintf.py
index d8d3fe2..cfe12aa 100755
--- a/examples/hwintf.py
+++ b/examples/hwintf.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import re
 from mininet.cli import CLI
 from mininet.log import setLogLevel, info, error
 from mininet.net import Mininet
+from mininet.link import Intf
 from mininet.topolib import TreeTopo
 from mininet.util import quietRun
 
@@ -27,16 +28,20 @@ def checkIntf( intf ):
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     setLogLevel( 'info' )
 
-    newIntf = 'eth1'
-    info( '*** Checking', newIntf, '\n' )
-    checkIntf( newIntf )
+    intfName = 'eth1'
+    info( '*** Checking', intfName, '\n' )
+    checkIntf( intfName )
 
     info( '*** Creating network\n' )
     net = Mininet( topo=TreeTopo( depth=1, fanout=2 ) )
 
     switch = net.switches[ 0 ]
-    info( '*** Adding', newIntf, 'to switch', switch.name, '\n' )
-    switch.addIntf( newIntf )
+    info( '*** Adding hardware interface', intfName, 'to switch',
+          switch.name, '\n' )
+    intf = Intf( intfName, node=switch )
+
+    info( '*** Note: you may need to reconfigure the interfaces for '
+          'the Mininet hosts:\n', net.hosts, '\n' )
 
     net.start()
     CLI( net )