1 /*
2  * Copyright 2011 Daniel Drown
3  *
4  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6  * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7  *
8  * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
9  *
10  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14  * limitations under the License.
15  *
16  * mtu.c - get interface mtu
17  */
18 
19 #include <string.h>
20 #include <stdlib.h>
21 #include <sys/types.h>
22 #include <sys/socket.h>
23 #include <sys/ioctl.h>
24 #include <net/if.h>
25 
26 #include "mtu.h"
27 
28 /* function: getifmtu
29  * returns the interface mtu or -1 on failure
30  * ifname - interface name
31  */
getifmtu(const char * ifname)32 int getifmtu(const char *ifname) {
33   int fd;
34   struct ifreq if_mtu;
35 
36   fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
37   if(fd < 0) {
38     return -1;
39   }
40   strncpy(if_mtu.ifr_name, ifname, IFNAMSIZ);
41   if_mtu.ifr_name[IFNAMSIZ - 1] = '\0';
42   if(ioctl(fd, SIOCGIFMTU, &if_mtu) < 0) {
43     return -1;
44   }
45   return if_mtu.ifr_mtu;
46 }
47