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How do I get current network location name?

In system network preference there are some location names.How to get the current or active network location name and list of all network locations?
I guess SystemConfiguration.framework supports this but i didn't get exactly which API to use.

Thanks in advance for your answer.

Regards
Devara Gudda

Solution

  • You can use SCPreferencesCreate to get the preferences, then SCNetworkSetCopyAll to get just the network locations. SCNetworkSetGetName will get the name of a location.

    SCPreferencesRef prefs = SCPreferencesCreate(NULL, @"SystemConfiguration", NULL);
NSArray *locations = (NSArray *)SCNetworkSetCopyAll(prefs);
for (id item in locations) {
    NSString *name = (NSString *)SCNetworkSetGetName((SCNetworkSetRef)item);
    ...
}
CFRelease(locations);
CFRelease(prefs);

    Read "System Configuration Programming Guidelines" for more.