getifaddrs, freeifaddrs - get interface addresses
#include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/socket.h> #include <ifaddrs.h> int getifaddrs(struct ifaddrs **ifap);
void freeifaddrs(struct ifaddrs *ifp);
The getifaddrs() function stores a reference to a linked list of network interface addresses on the local system in the memory referenced by ifap. The list consists of ifaddrs structures, as defined in the include file ifaddrs.h. Each element of the list describes one network interface address. The caller can process each ifaddrs structure in this list by following the ifa_next pointer, until a null pointer is encountered.
struct ifaddrs {
struct ifaddrs *ifa_next; /* next structure in linked list */
char *ifa_name; /* Interface name */
uint64_t ifa_flags; /* Interface flags (if_tcp(4P)) */
struct sockaddr *ifa_addr; /* Interface address */
struct sockaddr *ifa_netmask; /* Interface netmask */
union {
/* Interface broadcast address */
struct sockaddr *ifa_dstaddr;
/* P2P interface destination */
struct sockaddr *ifa_broadaddr;
} ifa_ifu;
void *ifa_data; /* Address specific data (unused) */
};
#ifndef ifa_broadaddr
#define ifa_broadaddr ifa_ifu.ifu_broadaddr
#endif
#ifndef ifa_dstaddr
#define ifa_dstaddr ifa_ifu.ifu_dstaddr
#endif
The ifa_name member contains the interface name.
The ifa_flags member contains the interface flags returned by a call to the SIOCGLIFFLAGS ioctl(2), as described on the if_tcp(4P) man page.
The ifa_addr member references the address of the interface. (The sa_family member of the ifa_addr member should be consulted to determine the format of the ifa_addr address.)
The ifa_netmask member references the netmask associated with ifa_addr, if one is set, otherwise it is NULL.
The contents of the ifa_ifu union depend on whether the interface is a point-to-point (P2P) connection or not. This is determined by the presence of the IFF_POINTTOPOINT bit in the ifa_flags. If this bit is set, the ifa_dstaddr member will be set. Otherwise, if the IFF_BROADCAST bit is set in the ifa_flags, the ifa_broadaddr member will be set instead.
The ifa_broadaddr member, which should only be referenced for non-P2P interfaces, references the broadcast address associated with ifa_addr, if one exists, otherwise it is NULL.
The ifa_dstaddr member references the destination address on a P2P interface, if one exists, otherwise it is NULL.
The ifa_data member is currently unused.
The data returned by getifaddrs() is dynamically allocated and should be freed using freeifaddrs() when no longer needed.
The getifaddrs() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.
The getifaddrs() function may fail and set errno for any of the errors specified for ioctl(2), socket(3C), and malloc(3C).
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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ioctl(2), malloc(3C), socket(3C), if_tcp(4P), attributes(7), ifconfig(8), ipadm(8)
The getifaddrs() and freeifaddrs() functions were added to Oracle Solaris in the Solaris 11.0 release. They were based on the functions of the same names from the FreeBSD Project.