On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Natanael Copa wrote: > On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 19:39 +0100, Jason Curl wrote: > > Natanael Copa wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Does anyone know a susv3/POSIX compliant way to list all ipv6 > > > interfaces? I bet there are no. ioctl(SIOCGIFCONF) ignores ipv6 > > > interfaces, I just tested. > > > > What does ifconfig do in BusyBox? Does that do what you want? > > talks directly to netlink, with is even more non portable.
i believe that's about the only way to get all the info you need anymore in Linux ... > > When I implemented something across multiple platforms only for IPv4 > > that was a real nightmare (Solaris, Linux, uClibc, FreeBSD, Cygwin). > > > > > I suggest implementing a getifaddrs in uclibc, even if its not > > > susv3/POSIX. > > I checked around. if_nameindex will list all your network interfaces, > which gets me half the way. but I still havent found out how to get a > list of ipv6 addresses from a given device name. from my testing, if_nameindex wont even enumerate all possible interfaces via the ioctl() interface. you need to go through netlink to get it all. -mike
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