[illumos-Developer] How to enumerate network interfaces?

Sunay Tripathi tripathi.sunay at gmail.com
Thu Oct 21 16:35:24 PDT 2010


On 10/21/10 02:11 PM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 12:04 -0700, Sunay Tripathi wrote:
>> Walking the code is the best documentation there is :) libdladm.so
>> is available in /lib and meant to be a public interface.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sunay
>>
>> As an aside,libipadm and associated header files (libipadm.h)
>> was also meant to be public at some point but I noticed the header file
>> is not  being delivered. Garrett, can you deliver libipadm.h in
>> one of the future builds?
>
> I don't see why not, if the interfaces are intended for public
> consumption.  Or, you could set up a workspace to integrate it yourself.
> The beauty of illumos is, anyone can gain integration privileges if
> they're willing to do the work to integrate themselves. ;-)

Gaining integration privileges. Wow. Really, do you think I can get
privileges!!!! Then I would be able to blog that I have integration
privileges on illumos.

Cheers,
Sunay


>
> 	- Garrett
>
>>
>> On 10/21/10 09:30 AM, Peter Tap wrote:
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> I need to get a list of aggregated as well as non-aggregated network
>>> interfaces similar to what "dladm show-link" does. I traced the code
>>> down to dladm_walk_datalink_id() in libdladm. However, there is no
>>> libdladm.so available in the build image.
>>>
>>> Is there a public method I can use to obtain the information I am
>>> looking for?
>>>
>>> Oddly, libdladm.h is available in the build image.
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance for your help.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Peter
>>>
>>>
>>>
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