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-.TH GETIFADDRS 3 2010-10-06 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH GETIFADDRS 3 2014-02-26 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
getifaddrs, freeifaddrs \- get interface addresses
.SH SYNOPSIS
.I sa_family
subfield should be consulted to determine the format of the
address structure.)
+This field may contain a null pointer.
.PP
The
.I ifa_netmask
field points to a structure containing the netmask associated with
.IR ifa_addr ,
if applicable for the address family.
+This field may contain a null pointer.
.PP
Depending on whether the bit
.B IFF_BROADCAST
The
.BR getifaddrs ()
function first appeared in glibc 2.3, but before glibc 2.3.3,
-the implementation only supported IPv4 addresses;
+the implementation supported only IPv4 addresses;
IPv6 support was added in glibc 2.3.3.
-Support of address families other than IPv4 is only available
+Support of address families other than IPv4 is available only
on kernels that support netlink.
.SH CONFORMING TO
Not in POSIX.1-2001.
In this case, the
.I ifa_data
field may contain a pointer to a
+.IR "struct rtnl_link_stats" ,
+defined in
+.IR <linux/if_link.h>
+(in Linux 2.4 and earlier,
.IR "struct net_device_stats" ,
defined in
-.IR <linux/netdevice.h> ,
+.IR <linux/netdevice.h> ),
which contains various interface attributes and statistics.
.SH EXAMPLE
The program below demonstrates the use of
.nf
$ \fB./a.out\fP
-lo address family: 17 (AF_PACKET)
-eth0 address family: 17 (AF_PACKET)
-lo address family: 2 (AF_INET)
- address: <127.0.0.1>
-eth0 address family: 2 (AF_INET)
- address: <10.1.1.4>
-lo address family: 10 (AF_INET6)
- address: <::1>
-eth0 address family: 10 (AF_INET6)
- address: <fe80::2d0:59ff:feda:eb51%eth0>
+lo AF_PACKET (17)
+ tx_packets = 524; rx_packets = 524
+ tx_bytes = 38788; rx_bytes = 38788
+wlp3s0 AF_PACKET (17)
+ tx_packets = 108391; rx_packets = 130245
+ tx_bytes = 30420659; rx_bytes = 94230014
+em1 AF_PACKET (17)
+ tx_packets = 0; rx_packets = 0
+ tx_bytes = 0; rx_bytes = 0
+lo AF_INET (2)
+ address: <127.0.0.1>
+wlp3s0 AF_INET (2)
+ address: <192.168.235.137>
+lo AF_INET6 (10)
+ address: <::1>
+wlp3s0 AF_INET6 (10)
+ address: <fe80::7ee9:d3ff:fef5:1a91%wlp3s0>
.fi
.in
.SS Program source
\&
.nf
+#define _GNU_SOURCE /* To get defns of NI_MAXSERV and NI_MAXHOST */
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
+#include <linux/if_link.h>
-int
-main(int argc, char *argv[])
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
struct ifaddrs *ifaddr, *ifa;
- int family, s;
+ int family, s, n;
char host[NI_MAXHOST];
if (getifaddrs(&ifaddr) == \-1) {
/* Walk through linked list, maintaining head pointer so we
can free list later */
- for (ifa = ifaddr; ifa != NULL; ifa = ifa\->ifa_next) {
+ for (ifa = ifaddr, n = 0; ifa != NULL; ifa = ifa\->ifa_next, n++) {
if (ifa\->ifa_addr == NULL)
continue;
/* Display interface name and family (including symbolic
form of the latter for the common families) */
- printf("%s\t address family: %d%s\\n",
- ifa\->ifa_name, family,
- (family == AF_PACKET) ? " (AF_PACKET)" :
- (family == AF_INET) ? " (AF_INET)" :
- (family == AF_INET6) ? " (AF_INET6)" : "");
+ printf("%\-8s %s (%d)\\n",
+ ifa\->ifa_name,
+ (family == AF_PACKET) ? "AF_PACKET" :
+ (family == AF_INET) ? "AF_INET" :
+ (family == AF_INET6) ? "AF_INET6" : "???",
+ family);
/* For an AF_INET* interface address, display the address */
s = getnameinfo(ifa\->ifa_addr,
(family == AF_INET) ? sizeof(struct sockaddr_in) :
sizeof(struct sockaddr_in6),
- host, NI_MAXHOST, NULL, 0, NI_NUMERICHOST);
+ host, NI_MAXHOST,
+ NULL, 0, NI_NUMERICHOST);
if (s != 0) {
printf("getnameinfo() failed: %s\\n", gai_strerror(s));
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
- printf("\\taddress: <%s>\\n", host);
+
+ printf("\\t\\taddress: <%s>\\n", host);
+
+ } else if (family == AF_PACKET && ifa\->ifa_data != NULL) {
+ struct rtnl_link_stats *stats = ifa\->ifa_data;
+
+ printf("\\t\\ttx_packets = %10u; rx_packets = %10u\\n"
+ "\\t\\ttx_bytes = %10u; rx_bytes = %10u\\n",
+ stats\->tx_packets, stats\->rx_packets,
+ stats\->tx_bytes, stats\->rx_bytes);
}
}
.BR socket (2),
.BR packet (7),
.BR ifconfig (8)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.65 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+and information about reporting bugs,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.