Enumerating interfaces on your machine

If you need to list the network interfaces present on your machine, it is not very complicated in Python. There are a couple of third-party libraries out there that can do this job in a few lines. However, let's see how this is done using a pure socket call.

Getting ready

You need to run this recipe on a Linux box. To get the list of available interfaces, you can execute the following command:

$ /sbin/ifconfig
  

How to do it...

Listing 3.4 shows how to list the networking interfaces, as follows:

#!/usr/bin/env python 
# Python...