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the most reliable and correct method to get network interface address in Linux using Perl

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This method doesn't rely on parsing 'ifconfig' tool output, and should work in any Linux distribution, but also could work in other POSIX environments.
The function returns a string with IPv4 address or 'undef' if it's not possible.

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  1. #!/usr/bin/perl
  2. use strict;
  3. use warnings;
  4. use Socket;
  5. require 'sys/ioctl.ph';
  6.  
  7. print get_interface_address('eth0');
  8.  
  9. sub get_interface_address
  10. {
  11. 	my ($iface) = @_;
  12. 	my $socket;
  13. 	socket($socket, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, (getprotobyname('tcp'))[2]) || die "unable to create a socket: $!\n";
  14. 	my $buf = pack('a256', $iface);
  15. 	if (ioctl($socket, SIOCGIFADDR(), $buf) && (my @address = unpack('x20 C4', $buf)))
  16. 	{
  17. 		return join('.', @address);
  18. 	}
  19. 	return undef;
  20. }

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