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Comment by coolius

3 hours ago

this is great! i had to tweak the config file on macos because it was using some weird interface (utun4) instead of en0. otherwise awesome tool, i am definitely going to be using this more often.

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rvermeulen98  2 hours ago

Thanks, I am glad you like it! I couldn't find a Go API that just returns the OS "default" network interface, so struggled a bit with a correct implementation for that part.

When reading some blog posts, I found often a solution where it sends out an UDP dial to for example 8.8.8.8:53 because you can then get the network interface back from the connection it's local address. As fallback I implemented to pick the first non-loopback interface that is up.

Would be open to suggestions to do this in a better way!

  • fellerts  2 hours ago

    I think this package does exactly what you need: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/google/gopacket/routing. Works on my machine (error handling left to the reader)

        router, _ := routing.New()
    iface, _, _, _ := router.Route(net.ParseIP("8.8.8.8"))
    fmt.Println(iface.Name)

    this prints my Ethernet interface as expected. It doesn't make any requests, it just figures out where to route a packet. I guess it interfaces with the OS routing table.

    • rvermeulen98  1 hour ago

      Thanks for sharing! This is definitely something I will look into, I am all in favor to simplify the current implementation of finding the "default" OS network interface.