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Posted by Rik on 10/24/06 04:11
Joshua Beall wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've got a utility I'm working on, and I want to be able to list for
> the user all the current network interfaces on the machine. Is there
> a way to do this in PHP? PHP 5.0.3, Mandriva Linux 2005 (2.6 kernel).
> I'm not actually in front of the machine in question, and I don't
> recall the minor kernel version, or the minor version of Mandriva...
>
> Any thoughts? I'd prefer not to have to run the script as root,
> incidentally. I realize I could run as root and then just parse the
> output of ifconfig, but I assume there's a more intelligent way to go
> about what I'm trying to do.
>
> The purpose of this utility is to allow me to issue a ping, from a
> specified interface (including virtual interfaces, e.g., eth0:1), and
> test for connectivity from the webserver to the the address i am
> pinging, through the specified network interface (rather than always
> pinging from the default/primary interface of the machine).
>
> Any thoughts? How would I go about this? I haven't been able to come
> up with a way to do this, short of running as root and parsing
> ifconfig, as I mentioned above.
I would not use PHP for this. Perhaps C(++), far more up to the task.
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Rik Wasmus
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