nifa

Cross-platform CLI tool for network information

Features

• List all network interfaces with detailed information
• Show complete details of a specific interface
• Monitor live traffic statistics in TUI
• Export snapshot in JSON or YAML for automation
• Fetch your public IPv4/IPv6
• Display system information along with default interface

Supported Platforms

• Linux
• macOS
• Windows

Installation

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/shellrow/nifa/releases/latest/download/nifa-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/shellrow/nifa/releases/latest/download/nifa-installer.ps1 | iex"

From Releases

You can download archives of precompiled binaries from the releases

Using Cargo

cargo install nifa

Usage

Usage: nifa [OPTIONS] [COMMAND]

Commands:
  list     Show all interfaces
  show     Show details for specified interface
  monitor  Monitor traffic statistics for all interfaces
  os       Show OS/network stack/permission information
  export   Export snapshot as JSON/YAML
  public   Show public IP information
  help     Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

Options:
  -d, --default          Show only default interface
  -f, --format <FORMAT>  Output format [default: tree] [possible values: tree, json, yaml]
      --with-vendor      With vendor info (OUI lookup)
  -h, --help             Print help
  -V, --version          Print version

See nifa <sub-command> -h for more detail.

Note for Developers

If you are looking for a Rust library for network interface, please check out netdev.