Retrieving network address information
Many programs will need to know the network information about the available interfaces on the device they are running on. This recipe will show you how to retrieve the network information for all the active network interfaces on your device. The information that we will be retrieving is the interface name, IP version, IP address, netmask, and default gateway.
We will start off by creating a
NetworkAddressStore class that can be used to store the information for a given network interface. We will then get a list of active network interfaces and create an instance of the NetworkAddressStore class for each interface. These objects will then be stored in NSMutableArray.
This recipe will also introduce several ...
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