I am totally new to python programming so please be patient with me.
Is there anyway to get the names of the NIC cards in the machine etc. eth0, lo? If so how do you do it?
I have researched but so far I have only found codes to get IP addresses and MAC addresses only such as
import socket
socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
Advice on the codes would really be appreciated. Thanks!
socket module in Python >= 3.3:
import socket
# Return a list of network interface information
socket.if_nameindex()
https://docs.python.org/3/library/socket.html#socket.if_nameindex
Like David Breuer say, you can just list the directory "/ sys / class / net" on Linux. (It works on Fedora at least). If you need detailled information about some interface you can navigate on the intefaces's directories for more.
def getAllInterfaces():
return os.listdir('/sys/class/net/')
There is a python package get-nic which gives NIC status, up\down, ip addr, mac addr etc
pip install get-nic
from get_nic import getnic
getnic.interfaces()
Output: ["eth0", "wlo1"]
interfaces = getnic.interfaces()
getnic.ipaddr(interfaces)
Output:
{'lo': {'state': 'UNKNOWN', 'inet4': '127.0.0.1/8', 'inet6': '::1/128'}, 'enp3s0': {'state': 'DOWN', 'HWaddr': 'a4:5d:36:c2:34:3e'}, 'wlo1': {'state': 'UP', 'HWaddr': '48:d2:24:7f:63:10', 'inet4': '10.16.1.34/24', 'inet6': 'fe80::ab4a:95f7:26bd:82dd/64'}}
Refer GitHub page for more information: https://github.com/tech-novic/get-nic-details