Hello fellow perl users, I currently try to find a way to get information about my local network interfaces. To be more precise, I want to know which one of my network interfaces is a real (physical) or a virtual one. I don't had my eyes on the Net::Interface module, but apparently my ppm won't find the package at all. Additionally, I don't really know if the Net::Interface module can distinguish between physical and virtual network interfaces. Is there a way to get the information without the usage of that package?

Edit: For anyone interested, I found a solution: 

my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:WMI:');


my $stmt = "
SELECT Name, NetConnectionID 
FROM Win32_NetworkAdapter 
WHERE  Manufacturer != 'Microsoft' 
AND NOT PNPDeviceID LIKE 'ROOT\\\\%'
";

my $sth = $dbh->prepare($stmt);

$sth->execute();
while (my @row = $sth->fetchrow_array) {
   print "Name:\t\t\t$row[0]\Interface:\t$row[1]\n\n";
}

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In reply to Trying to get information about network interfaces by iRemix94

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