Michael VanLoon wrote:
>
> Please point me to a more appropriate forum if there is one. I'm kinda out
> of my depth on this question. Pseudo code is fine. :-)
>
> What I'm looking for is how to enumerate the network interfaces and get the
> Ethernet MAC address of one programmatically. Can anyone point me in the
> right direction?
>
> Thanks much!
here's a little routine that probably does what you want:
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#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/syslog.h>
#include <sys/param.h>
#include <net/if.h>
#include <net/if_dl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <strings.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
void showbytes(unsigned char *cptr,int len)
{
int i,j;
for (j = 0 ;len > 0 ;j++) {
for ( i = 0; i < 16; i++) {
printf("0x%x ",*cptr++);
if (--len == 0) break;
}
printf("\n");
}
}
void print_sa (struct sockaddr *sap)
{
char buf[128];
printf("len=%d,",sap->sa_len);
switch(sap->sa_family) {
case AF_LINK:
printf(" family=LINK\n");
{
char *cptr;
struct sockaddr_dl *sdl = (struct sockaddr_dl *)sap;
cptr = sdl->sdl_data;
printf("index=%u, type=%u ",
sdl->sdl_index,
sdl->sdl_type);
printf("nlen=%u, alen=%u, slen=%u\n",
sdl->sdl_nlen,
sdl->sdl_alen,
sdl->sdl_slen);
if(sdl->sdl_nlen) {
bcopy(cptr,buf,sdl->sdl_nlen);
buf[sdl->sdl_nlen] = 0;
printf(" name = %s\n",buf);
cptr += sdl->sdl_nlen;
}
if(sdl->sdl_alen) {
printf(" address = ");
showbytes(cptr,sdl->sdl_alen);
cptr += sdl->sdl_alen;
}
if(sdl->sdl_slen) {
printf(" selector = ");
showbytes(cptr,sdl->sdl_slen);
cptr += sdl->sdl_slen;
}
}
break;
case AF_INET:
printf(" family=INET\n");
printf("[%s]",
inet_ntoa(((struct sockaddr_in *)sap)->sin_addr));
printf(".%hu\n",((struct sockaddr_in *)sap)->sin_port);
break;
default:
printf(" family=%d\n",sap->sa_family);
showbytes(sap->sa_data,sap->sa_len-2);
}
}
/*
* Get the configuration from the kernel.
*/
void getifconf( void )
{
struct ifconf ifc;
struct ifreq ifrs[ 64 ], *ifr, *nextifr;
struct interface *iface, *niface;
int s;
struct sockaddr *sa_p;
int ifrsize = 0;
u_char proto;
bzero(&ifc,sizeof(struct ifconf));
bzero(ifrs,sizeof(struct ifreq) * 64);
if (( s = socket( AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0 )) < 0 ) {
perror( "socket" );
exit( 1 );
}
ifc.ifc_len = sizeof( ifrs );
ifc.ifc_buf = (caddr_t)ifrs;
if ( ioctl( s, SIOCGIFCONF, &ifc ) < 0 ) {
perror( "getifconf" );
exit( 1 );
}
for ( ifr = ifc.ifc_req; ifc.ifc_len >= sizeof( struct ifreq );
ifr = nextifr, ifc.ifc_len -= ifrsize) {
/*
* in BSD4.4, this returns an entry for every address
* Associated with the if. including physical.. they
* include a sockaddr which is VARIABLE LENGTH!
*
* Calculate the length of this entry.
*/
sa_p = &(ifr->ifr_addr);
print_sa(&(ifr->ifr_addr));
/*print_sa(&(ifr->ifr_dstaddr));
print_sa(&(ifr->ifr_broadaddr));*/
ifrsize = IFNAMSIZ + sa_p->sa_len;
nextifr = (struct ifreq *)((caddr_t)ifr + ifrsize);
proto = ifr->ifr_addr.sa_family;
/*
* Now get it's Netmask
*/
if ( ioctl( s, SIOCGIFNETMASK, ifr ) < 0 ) {
fprintf( stderr, "netmask not available from SIOCGIFNETMASK\n" );
} else {
if(proto == AF_INET)
ifr->ifr_addr.sa_family = proto;
printf("netmask: ");
print_sa(&(ifr->ifr_addr));
}
/*
* Now get it's flags
*/
if ( ioctl( s, SIOCGIFFLAGS, ifr ) < 0 ) {
perror( ifr->ifr_name );
}
printf("FLAGS = 0x%x\n",(unsigned short)ifr->ifr_flags);
printf("\n");
}
if ( ifc.ifc_len != 0 ) {
fprintf( stderr, "Funky gifconf return.\n" );
exit( 1 );
}
(void)close( s );
return;
}
main()
{
getifconf();
exit(0);
}
