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Hi All,
I've got a utility I'm working on, and I want to be able to list for the user all the current network interfaces on the machine. Is there a way to do this in PHP? PHP 5.0.3, Mandriva Linux 2005 (2.6 kernel). I'm not actually in front of the machine in question, and I don't recall the minor kernel version, or the minor version of Mandriva... Any thoughts? I'd prefer not to have to run the script as root, incidentally. I realize I could run as root and then just parse the output of ifconfig, but I assume there's a more intelligent way to go about what I'm trying to do. The purpose of this utility is to allow me to issue a ping, from a specified interface (including virtual interfaces, e.g., eth0:1), and test for connectivity from the webserver to the the address i am pinging, through the specified network interface (rather than always pinging from the default/primary interface of the machine). Any thoughts? How would I go about this? I haven't been able to come up with a way to do this, short of running as root and parsing ifconfig, as I mentioned above. -Josh |