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Date:      Tue, 17 Apr 2001 23:14:50 +0900
From:      itojun@iijlab.net
To:        skodati@in.ibm.com
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IPv6 : interface configuration 
Message-ID:  <28190.987516890@itojun.org>
In-Reply-To: skodati's message of Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:05:04 %2B0530. <CA256A31.00418DF2.00@d73mta05.au.ibm.com> 

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>I have configured my system for IPv6, and the system is getting
>autoconfigured properly. (ifconfig shows both IPv4 and v6 addresses).
>I want to read the information about interfaces being configured with IPv6
>address.
>I opened a socket for ip domain and reading the information into "ifconf"
>through "ioctl" with SIOCGIFCONF flag. And then reading all the addresses
>thru ifreq.
>But iam not able to find any interaces with address famly AF_INET6.

	getifaddrs(3) is the easiest way.  SIOCGIFCONF is very hard to use
	these days, due to buffer size management, as well as variable-length
	packed struct .

itojun

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