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Subject: [ale] Pulling IP address from server.
From: cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Chris Fowler)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:21:42 -0400
In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]>

On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 12:29 -0400, Brandon Checketts wrote:
> 
> I looked through the output of 'strace ifconifg'  to see where
> ifconfig
> is getting it from, and it looks like it may come from
> /proc/net/if_inet6 or /proc/net/dev  or possibly /proc/net/unix.

No.

If config gets a list of interfaces from /proc/net/dev.

It then gets information for each interface from the kernel.  Netmask,
IP, etc.  Using ioctl()

References:
- [ale] Pulling IP address from server.
  - From: atlantageek at gmail.com (Atlanta Geek)
- [ale] Pulling IP address from server.
  - From: brandon at brandonchecketts.com (Brandon Checketts)

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