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+//
+// Copyright 2017 Ettus Research (National Instruments)
+//
+// This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+// (at your option) any later version.
+//
+// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+// GNU General Public License for more details.
+//
+// You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+// along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+//
+
+#include <map>
+#include <vector>
+#include <string>
+
+namespace mpm {
+namespace network {
+
+/*!
+ * A struct describing a single network interface
+ */
+using net_iface = struct net_iface {
+    /*! MAC address of the interface in the form AABBCCDDEEFF */
+    std::string mac_addr;
+    /*! vector of associated IP addresses, contains both IPv4 and IPv6 */
+    std::vector<std::string> ip_addr;
+};
+
+/*!
+ * net_ifaces contains a <interfaces name, net_iface> pair
+ * describing mac address and associated ip addresses for
+ * each interface
+ */
+using net_ifaces = std::map<std::string, net_iface>;
+
+/*!
+ * Convenience function to get all ip addresses of one MAC address
+ * \param MAC address in the form AABBCCDDEEFF
+ * \return vector of strings containing all IP addresses with this MAC address
+ */
+std::vector<std::string> get_if_addrs(const std::string& mac_addr);
+
+/*!
+ * Get information about all interfaces on this system
+ * \return a map with interface names as keys and the interfaces information as value
+ */
+net_ifaces get_net_map();
+
+/*!
+ * Pretty print net_ifaces in the style of `ip addr`
+ * \param interface map net_ifaces to print
+ */
+void print_net_ifaces(net_ifaces my_ifaces);
+}
+}
+
+#ifdef LIBMPM_PYTHON
+void export_net_iface(){
+    LIBMPM_BOOST_PREAMBLE("network")
+        bp::def("get_if_addrs", &mpm::network::get_if_addrs);
+}
+#endif
+