From: Reid Thompson <Reid.Thompson@...>
Date: 2007-06-14T08:30:28+09:00
Subject: Re: How can I get the local machine's netmask programmatically?

On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 07:45 +0900, wolfram wrote:
> > what operating system? windows/linux(distribution?)/osx?
> > how many network adapters are in the machine?
> 
> Linux.
> 
> > on windows use `ipconfig /all` and parse output or WMI through Win32OLE
> > on unix `/sbin/ifconfig -a`
> 
> I know about the system commands.  Is there a library/API to get these
> programmatically without having to parse output from a sytem command?
> 
> Thanks,
> W.
> 
Create a socket and pull it from the socket structure.