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Old 11-03-2008
how to programatically obtain informations about existing NICs on the system
hi,
i would like to know how to programatically obtain informations about existing NICs (both configured and non-configured if possible) on *NIX?
i need to write simple *NIX C/C++ program that will have these informations. i have tried to search forums (and also google) with no luck. any help will be more than welcomme.

cheers
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Old 11-03-2008
In Linux you have the /proc filesystem that stores information about that. You just have to read /proc/net/dev (for example) and handle the strings. Try searching for ifconfig source code, it might come in handy.
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Old 11-06-2008
many 10X for that! does anyone knows how to do that on solaris, HP-UX and Tru64?
also, i am generally very interested in *NIX system programming, can You please point some good book(s) on the subject of handling processes, users, devices, file systems, etc? 10x in advance
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