Obtaining and interface's current ip

[Harald Welte]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 02:09:39PM -0500, Glover George wrote:
> Hi, I'm working on a little module here and was wondering what the BEST
> way to get an interface's current ip address by using it's name (i.e.,
> eth0) is.  

This is not related to netfilter, and especially not to netfilter development.

Try the linux-net@vger.kernel.org or netdev@oss.sgi.com mailinglists.

If you want to do it portable, you should do it the same way like 'ifconfig',
which is by ioctl's.

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