[Bridge] Simple list of tun devices?

Stephen Hemminger shemminger at osdl.org
Mon Nov 7 13:17:28 PST 2005


On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 21:16:28 +0100
Michael Bueker <m.bueker at berlin.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm using acustom script to bring up and take down my bridge. For that, 
> I need to know the bridge devices that are currently active for use in a 
> bash for-loop.
> I reckon that I could grep and sed the output of ifconfig or brctl show, 
> but that seems very kludgy to me. The tun* devices do not appear in /dev 
> and neither did a grep in all of /proc return any useful result.
> 
> So, is there a simple way to tell which tun devices are up at any moment?
> 
> Cheers,
> ~Mik

you could look at /sys/class/net/*/brport


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Stephen Hemminger <shemminger at osdl.org>
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