netdev

Cross-platform library for enumerating network interfaces with metadata.
netdev provides a unified API for discovering local network interfaces and retrieving commonly used metadata across platforms.

Key Features

• Enumerate all available network interfaces
• Detect the default network interface
• Retrieve interface metadata:
  • Interface type
  • MAC address
  • IPv4 / IPv6 addresses and prefixes
  • MTU, flags, operational state, etc...
• Native traffic statistics (RX/TX bytes) for each interface
• Designed for cross-platform

See the Interface struct documentation for detail.

Supported platform

• Linux
• macOS
• Windows
• Android
• iOS (and other Apple targets)
• BSDs

Usage

Add netdev to your Cargo.toml

[dependencies]
netdev = "0.41"

For more details, see examples or doc.

Project History

This crate was originally published as default-net and later rebranded to netdev by the author myself for future expansion, clearer naming, and long-term maintenance.

Tested on

• Linux
  • Ubuntu
    • 24.04
    • 22.04
    • 21.10
    • 20.04
    • 18.04
  • Kali
    • 2024.2
    • 2023.2
    • 2022.1
    • 2021.1
  • Arch
    • 2024.05.01
• macOS (Apple Silicon)
  • 14.7.6
• macOS (Intel)
  • 13.4.1
  • 11.6
• Windows
  • 11 24H2 26100.6584
  • 11 23H2 22631.4602
  • 11 Pro 22H2 22621.3155
  • 11 22H2 22621.3155
  • 10 21H2 19044.1586
• FreeBSD
  • 14
• Android (arm64)
  • 16.0
• Android (x86_64)
  • 16.0
• iOS
  • 18.6.2
  • 18.1.1