Give the hotspot's owner a route to its guests too

Binding the join socket to the Wi-Fi network covers a phone that has
joined a hotspot. It does nothing for the phone that is sharing one:
that phone has no Wi-Fi *client* network, so there was nothing to bind
to and the code gave up — leaving the socket on the default network,
which is mobile data, and a connection to a guest going out over
cellular to die.

ConnectivityManager does not offer the tethering interface as a Network,
so there is no network to name. Binding this end of the socket to one of
our own addresses on the guest's subnet picks the route instead, which
is the only lever available. The subnet test assumes a /24, which every
Android hotspot hands out, and getting it wrong costs a bind that would
not have helped anyway.

This is the direction that was left broken: the owner of the hotspot
trying to join a game hosted by one of its guests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0132V9gE6DF9itz2z3Hn7BK9
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package org.prolibertate.games.net
import org.junit.Assert.assertEquals
import org.junit.Assert.assertFalse
import org.junit.Assert.assertNull
import org.junit.Assert.assertTrue
import org.junit.Test
/**
@@ -103,4 +105,32 @@ class ManualAddressTest {
val shown = HostEndpoint(listOf("192.168.43.1"), 47654).primary!!
assertEquals(ManualAddress("192.168.43.1", 47654), parseManualAddress(shown))
}
// -- Choosing which of our own addresses to send from --------------------
/**
* The phone sharing the hotspot has no Wi-Fi network to bind to, so it
* picks a source address on the guest's subnet instead. Getting this wrong
* sends the connection out over mobile data.
*/
@Test
fun `addresses on one hotspot subnet match`() {
assertTrue(sameSubnet("192.168.43.1", "192.168.43.117"))
assertTrue(sameSubnet("192.168.1.20", "192.168.1.20"))
}
@Test
fun `addresses on different subnets do not`() {
assertFalse(sameSubnet("192.168.43.1", "192.168.1.5"))
assertFalse(sameSubnet("192.168.43.1", "10.0.0.5"))
}
/** Anything that is not a dotted quad is not a match, rather than a crash. */
@Test
fun `nonsense is not a match`() {
assertFalse(sameSubnet("", "192.168.43.1"))
assertFalse(sameSubnet("192.168.43", "192.168.43.1"))
assertFalse(sameSubnet("pixel-9.local", "192.168.43.1"))
assertFalse(sameSubnet("192.168.43.1.7", "192.168.43.1"))
}
}