Find interface associated with default route?

[Steve Holden]

Neal Becker wrote:
[...]
> 
> A quick strace reveals that 'route' just reads /proc/net/route, so:
> 
C:\Steve>type /proc/net/route
The syntax of the command is incorrect.

C:\Steve>type \proc\net\route
The system cannot find the path specified.

Python, but not platform dependent :-)

It would be nice to provide a shim module to provide stuff like this in 
a way that any platofrm could use. But when you look at the trouble it 
took to find a reasonable way for Ka Ping's guid function to locate an 
Ethernet address you'll agree that it would be a lot of work.

So probably reading /proc/net/route is a good bet for a limited range of 
platforms. OpenBSD is another place you won't find /proc/net/route.

regards
  Steve
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