Getting info about network devices

[Pete Nesbitt]

On June 9, 2004 03:32 am, Krishnendu Sadhukhan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 	I want to programmatically extract the list of network devices currently
> existing in the system. More specifically, I want to know the following:
>
> 	i) the list of all interfaces configured by the system at boot time
> 	ii) the list of all available interfaces at a particular moment
> 	iii) the list of all logical interfaces at a particular moment.
>
> 	I was looking at /proc/net/dev, but it seems it does not give the complete
> information, especially the information on the logical interfaces.
>
> 	What is the best place in the system to look for this information ?
>
> Thanks,
> Krish


What about  "ifconfig" ?
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Pete Nesbitt, rhce