ifdata(1)																 ifdata(1)

NAME

       ifdata - get network interface info without parsing ifconfig output

SYNOPSIS

       ifdata [options] {iface}

DESCRIPTION

       ifdata can be used to check for the existence of a network interface, or to get information abut the interface, such as its IP address. Un-
       like ifconfig or ip, ifdata has simple to parse output that is designed to be easily used by a shell script.

OPTIONS

       -h     Print out a help summary.

       -e     Test to see if the interface exists, exit nonzero if it does not.

       -p     Prints out the whole configuration of the interface.

       -pe    Prints "yes" or "no" if the interface exists or not.

       -pa    Prints the IPv4 address of the interface.

       -pn    Prints the netmask of the interface.

       -pN    Prints the network address of the interface.

       -pb    Prints the broadcast address of the interface.

       -pm    Prints the MTU of the interface.

       Following options are Linux only.

       -ph    Prints the hardware address of the interface.

       -pf    Prints the flags of the interface.

       -si    Prints out all the input statistics of the interface.

       -sip   Prints the number of input packets.

       -sib   Prints the number of input bytes.

       -sie   Prints the number of input errors.

       -sid   Prints the number of dropped input packets.

       -sif   Prints the number of input fifo overruns.

       -sic   Print the number of compressed input packets.

       -sim   Prints the number of input multicast packets.

       -so    Prints out all the output statistics of the interface.

       -sop   Prints the number of output packets.

       -sob   Prints the number of output bytes.

       -soe   Prints the number of output errors.

       -sod   Prints the number of dropped output packets.

       -sof   Prints the number of output fifo overruns.

       -sox   Print the number of output collisions.

       -soc   Prints the number of output carrier losses.

       -som   Prints the number of output multicast packets.

       -bips  Prints the number of bytes of incoming traffic measured in one second.

       -bops  Prints the number of bytes of outgoing traffic measured in one second.

AUTHOR

       Benjamin BAYART

								    2006-03-07								 ifdata(1)