Add a function to get information about all network interfaces

setup/installer/linux/freeze2.py

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ from setup import Command, modules, basenames, functions, __version__, \
 SITE_PACKAGES = ['PIL', 'dateutil', 'dns', 'PyQt4', 'mechanize',
         'sip.so', 'BeautifulSoup.py', 'cssutils', 'encutils', 'lxml',
         'sipconfig.py', 'xdg', 'dbus', '_dbus_bindings.so', 'dbus_bindings.py',
-        '_dbus_glib_bindings.so']
+        '_dbus_glib_bindings.so', 'netifaces.so']
 
 QTDIR          = '/usr/lib/qt4'
 QTDLLS         = ('QtCore', 'QtGui', 'QtNetwork', 'QtSvg', 'QtXml', 'QtWebKit', 'QtDBus')

setup/installer/windows/notes.rst

@@ -348,6 +348,19 @@ Remove the CORE_xlib, UTIL_Imdisplay and CORE_Magick++ projects.
 F7 for build project, you will get one error due to the removal of xlib, ignore
 it.
 
+netifaces
+------------
+
+Download the source tarball from http://alastairs-place.net/projects/netifaces/
+
+Rename netifaces.c to netifaces.cpp and make the same change in setup.py
+
+Run 
+
+python setup.py build
+cp build/lib.win32-2.7/netifaces.pyd /cygdrive/c/Python27/Lib/site-packages/
+
+
 calibre
 ---------
 

src/calibre/utils/mdns.py

@@ -4,9 +4,22 @@ __copyright__ = '2009, Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>'
 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 
 import socket, time, atexit
+from collections import defaultdict
 
 _server = None
 
+def get_all_ips():
+    ''' Return a mapping of interface names to the configuration of the
+    interface, which includes the ip address, netmask and broadcast addresses
+    '''
+    import netifaces
+    all_ips = defaultdict(list)
+    if hasattr(netifaces, 'AF_INET'):
+        for x in netifaces.interfaces():
+            for c in netifaces.ifaddresses(x).get(netifaces.AF_INET, []):
+                all_ips[x].append(c)
+    return dict(all_ips)
+
 def _get_external_ip():
     'Get IP address of interface used to connect to the outside world'
     try: