---
name: "nics"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "plc-utils-extra"
version: "0.0.6+git20250517.7fb8ac5-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/nics"
---

# nics(1)

Host Network Interface Enumerator

## NAME

nics - Host Network Interface Enumerator

## SYNOPSIS

**nics**

## DESCRIPTION

Search host for Ethernet interfaces and display the interface index, hardware address, IP address, interface name and interface description on stdout. This provides a simple, consistent, cross-platform format for presenting interface information to scripts and user applications.

## COMMENTS

This program illustrates use of basic Atheros Ethernet interface C functions. See program **ifs** for an alternative C++ implementation.

## OPTIONS

- \-**?**,--**help**

  Print program help summary on stdout. This option takes precedence over other options on the command line.

- \-**!**,--**version**

  Print program version information on stdout. This option takes precedence over other options on the command line. Use this option when sending screen dumps to Intellon Technical Support so that they know exactly which version of the Linux Toolkit you are using.

## ARGUMENTS

None.

## EXAMPLES

The following example searches a **Linux** host and displays information about available interfaces.

   \# nics \
    2 00:50:04:A5:D8:98 000.000.000.000 eth4 eth4\
    3 00:0F:EA:4B:98:CB 192.168.172.239 eth3 eth3

The following example searches a **MacOSX** host and displays information about available interfaces. Observe that interface names are varied.

   \# nics \
    4 00:26:BB:52:DD:A8 192.168.172.149 en0 en0\
    6 04:1E:64:F0:FB:EC 000.000.000.000 en1 en1

## SEE ALSO

**amp**(**1**), **ifs**(**1**), **nics**(**1**), **pcapdevs**(**1**), **plcnets**(**1**)

## CREDITS

 Charles Maier