Re: Obtaining interface IP address and MAC address

[Darren Reed <darren.reed () oracle com>]

roy hills wrote:
> I maintain an application that uses libpcap to receive frames, and uses its own link-specific functions to obtain 
> interface details and send frames.  I currently support packet socket (Linux), BPF (BSD) and DLPI (Solaris).
>
> I'd like to use libpcap to send as well as receive frames, and notice that libpcap supports pcap_sendpacket() and 
> pcap_inject() to do this.  But I can't find any portable way to obtain the interface IP address and MAC address.
>
> Does libpcap allow me to get the interface IP address and MAC address?

Why should it need to?

The interfaces used to do both of the above are almost universal now: 
SIOCGIFADDR and SIOCGIFHWADDR.

Darren

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