NAME

       ifdata - get network interface info without parsing ifconfig output

SYNOPSIS

       ifdata [options] {iface}

DESCRIPTION

       ifdata  can  be  used  to  check  for  the  existence  of  a  network interface, or to get
       information abut the interface, such as its IP address. Unlike ifconfig or ip, ifdata  has
       simple to parse output that is designed to be easily used by a shell script.

OPTIONS

       -h     Print out a help summary.

       -e     Test to see if the interface exists, exit nonzero if it does not.

       -p     Prints out the whole configuration of the interface.

       -pe    Prints "yes" or "no" if the interface exists or not.

       -pa    Prints the IPv4 address of the interface.

       -pn    Prints the netmask of the interface.

       -pN    Prints the network address of the interface.

       -pb    Prints the broadcast address of the interface.

       -pm    Prints the MTU of the interface.

       Following options are Linux only.

       -ph    Prints the hardware address of the interface.

       -pf    Prints the flags of the interface.

       -si    Prints out all the input statistics of the interface.

       -sip   Prints the number of input packets.

       -sib   Prints the number of input bytes.

       -sie   Prints the number of input errors.

       -sid   Prints the number of dropped input packets.

       -sif   Prints the number of input fifo overruns.

       -sic   Print the number of compressed input packets.

       -sim   Prints the number of input multicast packets.

       -so    Prints out all the output statistics of the interface.

       -sop   Prints the number of output packets.

       -sob   Prints the number of output bytes.

       -soe   Prints the number of output errors.

       -sod   Prints the number of dropped output packets.

       -sof   Prints the number of output fifo overruns.

       -sox   Print the number of output collisions.

       -soc   Prints the number of output carrier losses.

       -som   Prints the number of output multicast packets.

       -bips  Prints the number of bytes of incoming traffic measured in one second.

       -bops  Prints the number of bytes of outgoing traffic measured in one second.

AUTHOR

       Benjamin BAYART

                                            2006-03-07                                  ifdata(1)