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Programmatically determine which eth0:x interfaces is requesting data
Greetings,
I have edited the /etc/network/interfaces file to provide me with several eth0:x interfaces. Now I want to programmatically determine which interface or IP address a request is coming through.
For example; I have eth0:1 = 192.168.227.205 and eth0:2 = 192.168.227.206
From my laptop I can ping either address.
In linux I want to run a program that responds differently based on the IP address being hit. If .205 do this if .206 do that.
How can I programmatically determine which IP address is being hit?
I have edited the /etc/network/interfaces file to provide me with several eth0:x interfaces. Now I want to programmatically determine which interface or IP address a request is coming through.
For example; I have eth0:1 = 192.168.227.205 and eth0:2 = 192.168.227.206
From my laptop I can ping either address.
In linux I want to run a program that responds differently based on the IP address being hit. If .205 do this if .206 do that.
How can I programmatically determine which IP address is being hit?
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Tom Chadaravicius
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Thank you for the quick response. I looked up some example code for this and it looks like it will work perfectly.
There's getifaddrs function, defined in ifaddr.h. Calling it will retrieve an array of interfaces and IP addresses.
http://man7.org/linux/man-
http://man7.org/linux/man-