On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, David Malone wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:12:47PM -0700, Chris Ptacek wrote:
> > I am looking for a way to get all the IP addresses that are configured a
> > machine. I need to do this in c source code, and without using DNS services
> > (ie: gethostname/gethostbyname won't work). I am hoping there are some
> > system calls I can use to get this information. Thanks in advance for any
> > help.
>
> You could use getifaddrs in FreeBSD 4 and later - otherwise you'll
> need to use sysctl to get the list of interfaces and addresses.
It is possible to get interface lists on earlier versions (and I hope
still current versions) using the ioctl interfaces described in Stevens.
See also ifconfig.c source from various versions of FreeBSD :-).
Robert N M Watson
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