Bart, Can you try this and let us know if it works for FreeBSD?
import socket, fcntl, struct def _ifinfo(sock, addr, ifname): iface = struct.pack('256s', ifname[:15]) info = fcntl.ioctl(sock.fileno(), addr, iface) if addr == 0x8927: hwaddr = [] for char in info[18:24]: hwaddr.append(hex(ord(char))[2:]) return ':'.join(hwaddr) else: return socket.inet_ntoa(info[20:24]) def ifconfig(ifname): ifreq = {'ifname': ifname} sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM) try: ifreq['addr'] = _ifinfo(sock, 0x8915, ifname) # SIOCGIFADDR ifreq['brdaddr'] = _ifinfo(sock, 0x8919, ifname) # SIOCGIFBRDADDR ifreq['netmask'] = _ifinfo(sock, 0x891b, ifname) # SIOCGIFNETMASK ifreq['hwaddr'] = _ifinfo(sock, 0x8927, ifname) # SIOCSIFHWADDR except: pass sock.close() return ifreq Regards, Jordan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list