netdev.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
To: Mohan Reddy <mohanreddykv@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Help On function to get IPV6 address of an interface in kernel
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:17:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B8FDD23.3070000@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100304094103.GA6599@mohan-laptop>

Mohan Reddy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a function or a way in kernel to get an interface ipv6 address if interface name or net_device object is known? I searched in the kernel i got a function ipv6_get_ifaddr(). But it is expecting an ipv6 address as a parameter. 

What type of IPv6 address?  For link-locals you can use ipv6_get_lladdr(), but
for others ipv6_dev_get_saddr() is more comprehensive, but you'll need a
destination address.  There's lots of reference code in addrconf.c to do
other things.

-Brian

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-04 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-04  9:41 Help On function to get IPV6 address of an interface in kernel Mohan Reddy
2010-03-04 16:17 ` Brian Haley [this message]
2010-03-05 15:49   ` Venkata Mohan Reddy
2010-03-06 23:23     ` Mark Smith

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4B8FDD23.3070000@hp.com \
    --to=brian.haley@hp.com \
    --cc=mohanreddykv@gmail.com \
    --cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).