I am writing a kernel module which forms its own packet at ip level and then sends the data . I just want to know how to find the ip address of a local network interface.
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I am writing a kernel module which forms its own packet at ip level and then sends the data . I just want to know how to find the ip address of a local network interface.
There are defined ioctls
SIOCGIFADDR(to get if address) andSIOCSIFADDR(to set if address).All device configuration for IPv4 is done in
net/ipv4/devinet.c. You can refer to this source file to get more information.