Accessing NIC configuration via Python

[Shae Erisson]

Micheal Kelly wrote:

> Unfortunately, this wasn't quite what I was after.  What I'd really like
> to get is low-level NIC configuration information, such as the device
> names of all configured ethernet cards (eth0, eth1... ethx), their IP
> addresses, netmasks, etc.
> 
> I could do this by parsing the output of ifconfig, but for various reasons
> don't want to do that.  Is there any sort of low-level interface that I
> can access via Python to get this information?  I've looked through /proc
> to see if there was something I could read, but nothing that seems to
> contain the information I'm after.

I'd suggest browsing around in /proc/net/
My /proc/net/arp looked like it had most of the information you wanted,
I wasn't sure if the netmask there is the real netmask though.
/proc/sys/net/ also appears to contain useful information.

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