Solaris: Programmatic interface to ifconfig?

Question

I\'m looking for a programmatic interface to the Solaris ifconfig(1M) command.

Apparently Linux has the getifaddrs(3) command, but as far as I can tell this has not

Answer 1

getifaddrs() was recently integrated into the source code for future OpenSolaris & Solaris releases, but that doesn't help your code run on current releases:

• 6731945 need BSD getifaddrs() API
• OpenSolaris source: usr/src/lib/libsocket/inet/getifaddrs.c

Until then you'll need to use the SIOCGLIFCONF ioctls, which you should find lots of examples of in open source code, including the link you posted.