How to enumerate IP addresses of all enabled NIC cards from Java?

Question

Short of parting the results of executing ipconfig, does anyone have a 100% pure java way of doing this?

Answer 1

This is pretty easy:

try {
  InetAddress localhost = InetAddress.getLocalHost();
  LOG.info(" IP Addr: " + localhost.getHostAddress());
  // Just in case this host has multiple IP addresses....
  InetAddress[] allMyIps = InetAddress.getAllByName(localhost.getCanonicalHostName());
  if (allMyIps != null && allMyIps.length > 1) {
    LOG.info(" Full list of IP addresses:");
    for (int i = 0; i < allMyIps.length; i++) {
      LOG.info("    " + allMyIps[i]);
    }
  }
} catch (UnknownHostException e) {
  LOG.info(" (error retrieving server host name)");
}

try {
  LOG.info("Full list of Network Interfaces:");
  for (Enumeration<NetworkInterface> en = NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces(); en.hasMoreElements();) {
    NetworkInterface intf = en.nextElement();
    LOG.info("    " + intf.getName() + " " + intf.getDisplayName());
    for (Enumeration<InetAddress> enumIpAddr = intf.getInetAddresses(); enumIpAddr.hasMoreElements(); ) {
      LOG.info("        " + enumIpAddr.nextElement().toString());
    }
  }
} catch (SocketException e) {
  LOG.info(" (error retrieving network interface list)");
}

Answer 2

Some of this will only work in JDK 1.6 and above (one of the methods was added in that release.)

List<InetAddress> addrList = new ArrayList<InetAddress>();
for(NetworkInterface ifc : NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces()) {
   if(ifc.isUp()) {
      for(InetAddress addr : ifc.getInetAddresses()) {
        addrList.add(addr);
      }
   }
}

Prior to 1.6, it's a bit more difficult - isUp() isn't supported until then.

FWIW: The Javadocs note that this is the correct approach for getting all of the IP addresses for a node:

NOTE: can use getNetworkInterfaces()+getInetAddresses() to obtain all IP addresses for this node

Answer 3

This code only works in Java 1.6 because of the added InterfaceAddress code.

  try
  {
     System.out.println("Output of Network Interrogation:");
     System.out.println("********************************\n");

     InetAddress theLocalhost = InetAddress.getLocalHost();
     System.out.println(" LOCALHOST INFO");
     if(theLocalhost != null)
     {
        System.out.println("          host: " + theLocalhost.getHostName());
        System.out.println("         class: " + theLocalhost.getClass().getSimpleName());
        System.out.println("            ip: " + theLocalhost.getHostAddress());
        System.out.println("         chost: " + theLocalhost.getCanonicalHostName());
        System.out.println("      byteaddr: " + toMACAddrString(theLocalhost.getAddress()));
        System.out.println("    sitelocal?: " + theLocalhost.isSiteLocalAddress());
        System.out.println("");
     }
     else
     {
        System.out.println(" localhost was null");
     }

     Enumeration<NetworkInterface> theIntfList = NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces();
     List<InterfaceAddress> theAddrList = null;
     NetworkInterface theIntf = null;
     InetAddress theAddr = null;

     while(theIntfList.hasMoreElements())
     {
        theIntf = theIntfList.nextElement();

        System.out.println("--------------------");
        System.out.println(" " + theIntf.getDisplayName());
        System.out.println("          name: " + theIntf.getName());
        System.out.println("           mac: " + toMACAddrString(theIntf.getHardwareAddress()));
        System.out.println("           mtu: " + theIntf.getMTU());
        System.out.println("        mcast?: " + theIntf.supportsMulticast());
        System.out.println("     loopback?: " + theIntf.isLoopback());
        System.out.println("          ptp?: " + theIntf.isPointToPoint());
        System.out.println("      virtual?: " + theIntf.isVirtual());
        System.out.println("           up?: " + theIntf.isUp());

        theAddrList = theIntf.getInterfaceAddresses();
        System.out.println("     int addrs: " + theAddrList.size() + " total.");
        int addrindex = 0;
        for(InterfaceAddress intAddr : theAddrList)
        {
           addrindex++;
           theAddr = intAddr.getAddress();
           System.out.println("            " + addrindex + ").");
           System.out.println("            host: " + theAddr.getHostName());
           System.out.println("           class: " + theAddr.getClass().getSimpleName());
           System.out.println("              ip: " + theAddr.getHostAddress() + "/" + intAddr.getNetworkPrefixLength());
           System.out.println("           bcast: " + intAddr.getBroadcast().getHostAddress());
           int maskInt = Integer.MIN_VALUE >> (intAddr.getNetworkPrefixLength()-1);
           System.out.println("            mask: " + toIPAddrString(maskInt));
           System.out.println("           chost: " + theAddr.getCanonicalHostName());
           System.out.println("        byteaddr: " + toMACAddrString(theAddr.getAddress()));
           System.out.println("      sitelocal?: " + theAddr.isSiteLocalAddress());
           System.out.println("");
        }
     }
  }
  catch (SocketException e)
  {
     e.printStackTrace();
  }
  catch (UnknownHostException e)
  {
     e.printStackTrace();
  }

The "toMACAddrString" method looks like this:

public static String toMACAddrString(byte[] a) { if (a == null) { return "null"; } int iMax = a.length - 1;

  if (iMax == -1)
  {
     return "[]";
  }

  StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder();
  b.append('[');
  for (int i = 0;; i++)
  {
     b.append(String.format("%1$02x", a[i]));

     if (i == iMax)
     {
        return b.append(']').toString();
     }
     b.append(":");
  }

}

and the "toIPAddrString" method is here:

public static String toIPAddrString(int ipa)
{
   StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder();
   b.append(Integer.toString(0x000000ff & (ipa >> 24)));
   b.append(".");
   b.append(Integer.toString(0x000000ff & (ipa >> 16)));
   b.append(".");
   b.append(Integer.toString(0x000000ff & (ipa >> 8)));
   b.append(".");
   b.append(Integer.toString(0x000000ff & (ipa)));
   return b.toString();
}

I have that first set of code in the try/catch above in a method called dump() in class called IPConfig. Then I just put a main method in IPConfig to call new IPConfig().dump() so that when I'm trying to figure out some wacky network problem, I can see Java thinks is going on. I figured out that my Fedora box reports different information than Windows for the LocalHost information and it was causing my Java programs some issues.

I realize its similiar to the other answers but it prints out nearly everything interesting that you can get from the interface and ipaddress apis.