25 Mar
2013
25 Mar
'13
4:55 p.m.
On 2013-03-24 18:06, Trevor Cordes wrote:
can't do it from shell. Use AF_NETLINK, which is what ip(8) does internally. Bad design, IMHO...
So if I whipped up a little C proggie I could rely on it not to change? Hmm, maybe that's the way to go, but then I have to worry about keeping compiled binaries up to date :-(
Well, if it's a statically-linked binary (use uLibc if necessary to keep the size reasonable) and you follow the LSB guidelines, it should remain portable pretty much forever. At least until AF_NETLINK is deprecated, which I would expect to be a very very very long time from now. You still have to take into account multi-homed systems, but at least you can get the device names out of /proc/net/dev or 'netstat -i'. -Adam