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Product type Course

Published in Jan 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788835466

Length 776 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Cisco

Concepts

Networking

Authors (4):

Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker

Eric Chou

Abhishek Ratan

Pradeeban Kathiravelu

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Table of Contents (30) Chapters

Title Page

About Packt

Contributors

Preface

1. Fundamental Concepts FREE CHAPTER

2. Python for Network Engineers

3. Continuous Integration for Network Engineers

4. SDN Concepts in Network Automation

5. Low-Level Network Device Interactions

6. APIs and Intent-Driven Networking

7. The Python Automation Framework – Ansible Basics

8. The Python Automation Framework – Beyond Basics

9. AWS Cloud Networking

10. Working with Git

11. Sockets, IPv4, and Simple Client/Server Programming

12. Multiplexing Socket I/O for Better Performance

13. IPv6, Unix Domain Sockets, and Network Interfaces

14. Programming with HTTP for the Internet

15. Email Protocols, FTP, and CGI Programming

16. Programming Across Machine Boundaries

17. Working with Web Services – SOAP, and REST

18. Network Monitoring and Security

19. Network Modeling

20. Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA)

21. Open and Proprietary Networking Solutions

22. NFV and Orchestration – A Larger Ecosystem

23. Programming the Internet

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Printing your machine's name and IPv4 address

Sometimes, you need to quickly discover some information about your machine, for example, the hostname, IP address, number of network interfaces, and so on. This is very easy to achieve using Python scripts.

Getting ready

You need to install Python on your machine before you start coding. Python comes preinstalled in most of the Linux distributions. For Microsoft Windows operating systems, you can download binaries from the Python website: http://www.python.org/download/.

Currently, Python 3.x is released in addition to Python 2.x. Many of the current Linux distributions and macOS versions are still shipping Python 2 by default. However, some ship both of them.

Download the relevant installer for your operating system and the relevant version based on whether your operating system is 32 bit or 64 bit.

You may consult the documentation of your operating system to check and review your Python setup. After installing Python on your machine, you can try...

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