Getting list of network devices inside the Linux kernel

Question

I\'ve been looking through net/core/dev.c and other files to try to find out how to get the list of network devices that are currently configured and it\'s proving to be a littl

Answer 1

This ought to do the trick:

#include 

struct net_device *dev;

read_lock(&dev_base_lock);

dev = first_net_device(&init_net);
while (dev) {
    printk(KERN_INFO "found [%s]\n", dev->name);
    dev = next_net_device(dev);
}

read_unlock(&dev_base_lock);