ifconfig in python
James Mills
prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
Mon Jan 19 21:53:58 EST 2009
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:
> Also, since the subject is on my brain at the moment, how to find "the
> address" is not the right question to ask. These days most systems have
> multiple network interfaces (Ethernet, WiFi, dialup, et al) running
> multiple protocols, like IPv4 and IPv6. In general, there is no *one*
> IP address of a machine; often there are many. Ignoring that fact can
> lead to subtle bugs, like the one causing a urllib2 regression test
> failure that I've been squashing today!
I agree.
Nehemiah:
What is the problem you're solving ?
cheers
James
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