Python Network Programming

How to do it...

We can create a socket object and get the IP address of that interface. Then, we can use any of the scanning techniques to probe the interface status.

Listing 3.6 shows the detect network interface status, as follows:

#!/usr/bin/env python # Python Network Programming Cookbook, Second Edition -- Chapter - 3 # This program is optimized for Python 2.7.12 and Python 3.5.2. # It may run on any other version with/without modifications. import argparse import socket import struct import fcntl import nmap SAMPLE_PORTS = '21-23' def get_interface_status(ifname): sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM) ip_address = socket.inet_ntoa(fcntl.ioctl( sock.fileno(), 0x8915, #SIOCGIFADDR, C socket library sockios.h struct.pack(b'256s', ...