netdev - Re: Help On function to get IPV6 address of an interface in kernel

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Message-ID: <4B8FDD23.3070000@hp.com>
Date:	Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:17:39 -0500
From:	Brian Haley <brian.haley@...com>
To:	Mohan Reddy <mohanreddykv@...il.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Help On function to get IPV6 address of an interface in kernel

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
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