4.2. Interfaces¶
4.2.1. netifaces¶
4.2.2. Installation¶
$ pip install netifaces
4.2.3. Basic operations¶
import netifaces
dir(netifaces)
# [ 'address_families', 'gateways', 'ifaddresses', 'interfaces', 'version', ...]
4.2.4. Variables¶
netifaces.AF_INET
# 2
netifaces.AF_INET6
# 30
netifaces.AF_UNIX
# 1
netifaces.AF_APPLETALK # 16
netifaces.AF_CCITT # 10
netifaces.AF_CHAOS # 5
netifaces.AF_CNT # 21
netifaces.AF_COIP # 20
netifaces.AF_DATAKIT # 9
netifaces.AF_DECnet # 12
netifaces.AF_DLI # 13
netifaces.AF_ECMA # 8
netifaces.AF_HYLINK # 15
netifaces.AF_IMPLINK # 3
netifaces.AF_INET # 2
netifaces.AF_INET6 # 30
netifaces.AF_IPX # 23
netifaces.AF_ISDN # 28
netifaces.AF_ISO # 7
netifaces.AF_LAT # 14
netifaces.AF_LINK # 18
netifaces.AF_NATM # 31
netifaces.AF_NDRV # 27
netifaces.AF_NETBIOS # 33
netifaces.AF_NS # 6
netifaces.AF_PPP # 34
netifaces.AF_PUP # 4
netifaces.AF_ROUTE # 17
netifaces.AF_SIP # 24
netifaces.AF_SNA # 11
netifaces.AF_SYSTEM # 32
netifaces.AF_UNIX # 1
netifaces.AF_UNSPEC # 0
4.2.5. List network interfaces¶
import netifaces
netifaces.interfaces()
# ['lo0', 'gif0', 'stf0', 'XHC1', 'XHC20', 'VHC128',
# 'XHC0', 'en5', 'ap1', 'en0', 'p2p0', 'awdl0',
# 'en1', 'en2', 'en3', 'en4', 'bridge0',
# 'utun0', 'utun1', 'utun2']
4.2.6. Addresses of a interface¶
import netifaces
netifaces.ifaddresses('en0')
# {
# 18: [{'addr': 'f0:18:98:3a:ca:52'}],
# 30: [{'addr': 'fe80::813:d8b:d837:541b%en0', 'netmask': 'ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff::/64', 'flags': 1024}],
# 2: [{'addr': '10.0.3.173', 'netmask': '255.255.255.0', 'broadcast': '10.0.3.255'}]
# }
4.2.7. List Gateways¶
import netifaces
netifaces.gateways()
# {
# 'default': {2: ('10.0.3.1', 'en0')},
# 2: [('10.0.3.1', 'en0', True)],
# 30: [
# ('fe80::%utun0', 'utun0', False),
# ('fe80::%utun1', 'utun1', False),
# ('fe80::%utun2', 'utun2', False),
# ]}
4.2.8. Getting list of IPv4 addresses excluding loopback¶
import netifaces
EXCLUDE = ['lo0', 'lo']
for iface in netifaces.interfaces():
# ['lo0', 'gif0', 'stf0', 'XHC1', 'XHC20', 'VHC128',
# 'XHC0', 'en5', 'ap1', 'en0', 'p2p0', 'awdl0',
# 'en1', 'en2', 'en3', 'en4', 'bridge0',
# 'utun0', 'utun1', 'utun2']
if iface in EXCLUDE:
continue
details = netifaces.ifaddresses(iface)
if netifaces.AF_INET in details:
info = details[netifaces.AF_INET]
print(info)
# [{'addr': '10.0.3.173', 'netmask': '255.255.255.0', 'broadcast': '10.0.3.255'}]