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Retrieving The Network Configuration of A Local Machine

The document discusses retrieving the network configuration of a local machine using the netifaces package in Python. It describes how to find the network interfaces, IP addresses, gateways, and other information about a machine's network configuration.

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Retrieving The Network Configuration of A Local Machine

The document discusses retrieving the network configuration of a local machine using the netifaces package in Python. It describes how to find the network interfaces, IP addresses, gateways, and other information about a machine's network configuration.

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Intermediate

Retrieving the network configuration


of a local machine
In this section, you will learn how to retrieve the network configuration with
the netifaces package, and understand the standard Python libraries for IP address
manipulation.
Gathering information with the
netifaces package
Now, we are going to discover some more information about the network
interface and the gateway machine of your network.

In every LAN, a host is configured to act as a gateway, which talks to the outside
world. To find the network address and the netmask, we can use a Python third-
party library, netifaces. For example, you can call netifaces.gateways() to find the
gateways that are configured to the outside world. Similarly, you can enumerate
the network interfaces by calling netifaces.interfaces(). If you would like to know
all the IP addresses of a particular interface, eth0, then you can call
netifaces.ifaddresses('eth0').

The following code listing shows the way in which you can list all the gateways
and IP addresses of a local machine.

You can find the following code in the local_network_config.py file:


!/usr/bin/env python3

import socket
import netifaces

# Find host info


host_name = socket.gethostname()
ip_address = socket.gethostbyname(host_name)
print("Host name: {0}".format(host_name))

# Get interfaces list


ifaces = netifaces.interfaces()

for iface in ifaces:


ipaddrs = netifaces.ifaddresses(iface)
#for each ipaddress
if netifaces.AF_INET in ipaddrs:
ipaddr_desc = ipaddrs[netifaces.AF_INET]
ipaddr_desc = ipaddr_desc[0]
print("Network interface: {0}".format(iface))
if 'addr' in ipaddr_desc:
print("\tIP address: {0}".format(ipaddr_desc['addr']))
if 'netmask' in ipaddr_desc:
print("\tNetmask: {0}".format(ipaddr_desc['netmask']))

# Find the gateway


gateways = netifaces.gateways()
print("Default gateway:{0}".format(gateways['default'][netifaces.AF_INET][0]))

If you run this code in a Windows operating system, it will print a summary of
the local network configuration, which will be similar to the following:

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