From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-07-13T06:51:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Getting my IP address

> >  You write an extension and you just hope that it work :-)))
> > 
> > svg% ruby -ripo -e 'p IPSocket.names'
> > [["lo", "127.0.0.1"], ["eth0", "138.102.114.196"]]
> > svg% 

If an interface has aliases, does it appear more than once?

If that's a proposed extension, can I also suggest it would be useful to
retrieve netmasks as well as IPs. And the interface flags too ('up',
'broadcast' etc)

Regards,

Brian.