Is there a way to use code to get the interface names for a Solaris machine. I can easily see them on a command line with the "ifconfig -a" command. I could write a script that parses these out of a the ifconfig result and outputs them to a file, and then I run the script with the system command from code, and open the resulting file from code.

It seems there should be an easier way for a program to get these names. On some of the Solaris boxes I use, these names are bge0, bge1,... depending on how many ethernet cards are installed. On others the names are ce0, ce1,...

If you know how I can get these names from code directly, please let me know.
TIA,
Herb Miller

Are you only concerned with active network interfaces?

use can use prtconf -D |grep network to see each interfaces' instances. and of course, if you need only the active interface, you can use ifconfig or the combination of both, depending on how stylish you want your script to report it out with the output

I'm not 100% sure what the OP means but 'code', but my foggy crystal ball tells me it's not "script", but rather some kind of the compiled language.
Maybe the OP could shed some more light....

That was my understanding also.

I may be in the wrong forum.

I was hoping to do this from code (C++ or C, most likely). I can use the ifconfig command from code and pipe the result of a file and open the file and parse it. This seems cumbersome, but it does work.

I was hoping to just make some calls (or series of calls) from software to get this information rather that relying on the "system_ command from software, and writing and reading a file. I can not be sure that the code I am writing will be run in an environment where writing a file is permitted.

Thanks,
Herb

Yes, active interfaces only.