Re^5: Net::Libdnet 0.01 does not work under Window 7

[VinsWorldcom]

You may have to consider - as I did - *not* repairing Net::Libdnet; rather, rewriting some of your scripts to accommodate. Perhaps not ideal, but better than pushing water uphill. Since I'm not an expert coder and my efforts to get Net::Libdnet working didn't work - it was my only option.

Win32::Interfaces is in the PPC distribution on GitHub. It wasn't written as a replacement for Net::Libdnet, it was because Net::Libdnet, IO::Interfaces, etc. don't compile / work on Windows. So I took a lot of "functionality" from those modules and emulated it in the accessors for Win32::Interfaces pulling information from 'wmic', 'netsh' and other Windows system commands. It's not elegant, but it works.

Win32::Interfaces is pure Perl and can be installed "manually" by dropping the Interfaces.pm in your (...)/lib/Win32 folder. It has complete perldoc to get you started.

NAME
    Win32::Interfaces - Win32 Network Adapter Interfaces

SYNOPSIS
      use Win32::Interfaces;

      my $interface = Win32::Interfaces->new('Wireless Network Connect
+ion');

      printf "Name: %s\n", $interface->name;
      printf "MAC: %s\n", $interface->mac;
      printf "IPv4: %s\n", $interface->ipv4;

DESCRIPTION
    Win32::Interfaces is a module to retrieve Windows interface adapte
+r
    information (such as IP[v6] addresses, gateways, MAC, etc...). It 
+is
    implemented with system functions such as "wmic", "netsh" and "arp
+". A
    better approach may be to use XS with "GetAdaptersAddresses()" and
+ parse
    the "IP_ADAPTER_ADDRESSES" structure. Alas, that is proving diffic
+ult to
    do.

    This module was developed since I couldn't find an existing CPAN m
+odule
    that handled this information specifically for Windows, let alone 
+find
    Win32 support in the many interface modules already on CPAN (see S
+EE
    ALSO). The existing CPAN interface modules also used different API
+s so
    finding a common interface for both Windows and *nix with all the
    features was not possible.

    This modules attempts to provide many of the API calls from *nix
    interface modules specifically to Win32.

[...]

And a pretty extensive demonstration:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::Interfaces;

# Assumes the existence of "Local Area Connection" interface as defaul
+t
my $W32interfaces = Win32::Interfaces->new();
my @interfaces = $W32interfaces->interfaces();

for my $if (@interfaces) {
    my $interface = $W32interfaces->interface($if);

    if (!defined($interface)) {
        print Win32::Interfaces->error . "\n"
    } else {
        print "\n";
        printf "Name:             %s\n", $interface->name             
+    if $interface->name;
        printf "Description:      %s\n", $interface->description      
+    if $interface->description;
        printf "Adapter:          %s\n", $interface->adaptername      
+    if $interface->adaptername;
        printf "Device:           %s\n", $interface->device           
+    if $interface->device;
        printf "ifIndex:          %s\n", $interface->ifindex          
+    if $interface->ifindex;
        printf "MAC:              %s\n", $interface->mac              
+    if $interface->mac;
        printf "IPv4:             %s\n", $interface->ipv4             
+    if $interface->ipv4;
        printf "IPv4 netmask:     %s\n", $interface->ipv4_netmask     
+    if $interface->ipv4_netmask;
        printf "IPv4 gateway:     %s\n", $interface->ipv4_default_gate
+way if $interface->ipv4_default_gateway;
        printf "IPv4 gateway MAC: %s\n", $interface->ipv4_gateway_mac 
+    if $interface->ipv4_gateway_mac;
        printf "IPv4 MTU:         %s\n", $interface->ipv4_mtu         
+    if $interface->ipv4_mtu;
        printf "IPv6:             %s\n", $interface->ipv6             
+    if $interface->ipv6;
        printf "IPv6 link-local:  %s\n", $interface->ipv6_link_local  
+    if $interface->ipv6_link_local;
        # printf "IPv6 DHCPv6 IAID: %s\n", $interface->dhcpv6_iaid    
+      if $interface->dhcpv6_iaid;
        # printf "IPv6 DHCPv6 DUID: %s\n", $interface->dhcpv6_duid    
+      if $interface->dhcpv6_duid;
        printf "IPv6 gateway:     %s\n", $interface->ipv6_default_gate
+way if $interface->ipv6_default_gateway;
        printf "IPv6 gateway MAC: %s\n", $interface->ipv6_gateway_mac 
+    if $interface->ipv6_gateway_mac;
        printf "IPv6 MTU:         %s\n", $interface->ipv6_mtu         
+    if $interface->ipv6_mtu;
        printf "MTU:              %s\n", $interface->mtu              
+    if $interface->mtu;
        printf "DNS Server        %s\n", $interface->dnsserver        
+    if $interface->dnsserver;
        print "\n";
        print $interface->dump;
        printf "\nDONE - %s\n", $interface->name if $interface->name;
    }
}