Getting interface indexes in HPUX 11.0

[Adrian Cowham]

I'm using ioctl() calls to grab interface information on a HPUX 11.0 system. I can get the ip address, netmask, and gateway but it doesn't recognize SIOCGIFINDEX parameter for getting the index of the interface. Is there any other way to go about getting the ifindex rather than using ioctl()?

Thanks.

[harry d brown jr]

Yes, use lanscan.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

The card instance number should be your ifindex in 'lanscan' command.

-Sri

[rick jones]

which "index" do you seek? the index for the MIBs, or the PPA of the interface?

[Adrian Cowham]

looing for the PPA of the interface.

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Adrian

Please use lanscan .


Manoj Srivastava

[rick jones]

if you want to map from "ifconfig name" to PPA, i'm pretty sure that the libpcap code at www.tcpdump.org has that smarts. there are some DLPI calls one can make to retrieve all the PPA's known to that DLPI provider. between the libpcap code, and the DLPI manuals online at docs.hp.com you should be all set.