Introduction

This is a python module to display network interface status.

This module is originally written by David N. Welton.

Install

 # python setup.py install

Usage

>>> from ifconfig import ifconfig
>>> ifconfig('eth0')
{'hwaddr': '00:13:72:85:e8:fb', 'netmask': '255.255.254.0', 'addr': '10.182.120.78', 'brdaddr': '10.182.121.255'}

Reference

• http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-August/009274.html
• http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2007-March/600895.html
• http://pypi.python.org/pypi/netifaces
• http://code.activestate.com/recipes/439094/