Retrieving the network configuration of a local machine

In this section, you will learn how to retrieve the network configuration with the netifaces package, and understand the standard Python libraries for IP address manipulation.

Gathering information with the netifaces package

Now, we are going to discover some more information about the network interface and the gateway machine of your network.

In every LAN, a host is configured to act as a gateway, which talks to the outside world. To find the network address and the netmask, we can use a Python third-party library, netifaces. For example, you can call netifaces.gateways() to find the gateways that are configured to the outside world. Similarly, you can enumerate the...