How to enumerate all IP addresses attached to a machine, in POSIX C?

Question

Background:

I\'m writing a daemon that makes outgoing TCP/IP connections. It will be running on machines with multiple (non-loopback) IP addresses.

Answer 1

Here's my proof of concept code using caskey's accepted answer, for posterity's sake:

#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 


static const char * flags(int sd, const char * name)
{
    static char buf[1024];

    static struct ifreq ifreq;
    strcpy(ifreq.ifr_name, name);

    int r = ioctl(sd, SIOCGIFFLAGS, (char *)&ifreq);
    assert(r == 0);

    int l = 0;
#define FLAG(b) if(ifreq.ifr_flags & b) l += snprintf(buf + l, sizeof(buf) - l, #b " ")
    FLAG(IFF_UP);
    FLAG(IFF_BROADCAST);
    FLAG(IFF_DEBUG);
    FLAG(IFF_LOOPBACK);
    FLAG(IFF_POINTOPOINT);
    FLAG(IFF_RUNNING);
    FLAG(IFF_NOARP);
    FLAG(IFF_PROMISC);
    FLAG(IFF_NOTRAILERS);
    FLAG(IFF_ALLMULTI);
    FLAG(IFF_MASTER);
    FLAG(IFF_SLAVE);
    FLAG(IFF_MULTICAST);
    FLAG(IFF_PORTSEL);
    FLAG(IFF_AUTOMEDIA);
    FLAG(IFF_DYNAMIC);
#undef FLAG

    return buf;
}

int main(void)
{
    static struct ifreq ifreqs[32];
    struct ifconf ifconf;
    memset(&ifconf, 0, sizeof(ifconf));
    ifconf.ifc_req = ifreqs;
    ifconf.ifc_len = sizeof(ifreqs);

    int sd = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
    assert(sd >= 0);

    int r = ioctl(sd, SIOCGIFCONF, (char *)&ifconf);
    assert(r == 0);

    for(int i = 0; i < ifconf.ifc_len/sizeof(struct ifreq); ++i)
    {
        printf("%s: %s\n", ifreqs[i].ifr_name, inet_ntoa(((struct sockaddr_in *)&ifreqs[i].ifr_addr)->sin_addr));
        printf(" flags: %s\n", flags(sd, ifreqs[i].ifr_name));
    }

    close(sd);

    return 0;
}

Works like a charm!