Here you can find the source of getGlobalInterfaces()
static InetAddress[] getGlobalInterfaces() throws SocketException
//package com.java2s; /*/* w ww . j av a2 s .c om*/ * Licensed to Elasticsearch under one or more contributor * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with * this work for additional information regarding copyright * ownership. Elasticsearch licenses this file to you under * the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may * not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, * software distributed under the License is distributed on an * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the * specific language governing permissions and limitations * under the License. */ import java.net.InetAddress; import java.net.NetworkInterface; import java.net.SocketException; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Collections; import java.util.List; public class Main { /** Returns all global scope addresses for interfaces that are up. */ static InetAddress[] getGlobalInterfaces() throws SocketException { List<InetAddress> list = new ArrayList<InetAddress>(); for (NetworkInterface intf : getInterfaces()) { if (intf.isUp()) { for (InetAddress address : Collections.list(intf.getInetAddresses())) { if (address.isLoopbackAddress() == false && address.isSiteLocalAddress() == false && address.isLinkLocalAddress() == false) { list.add(address); } } } } return list.toArray(new InetAddress[list.size()]); } /** Return all interfaces (and subinterfaces) on the system */ static List<NetworkInterface> getInterfaces() throws SocketException { List<NetworkInterface> all = new ArrayList<NetworkInterface>(); addAllInterfaces(all, Collections.list(NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces())); return all; } /** Helper for getInterfaces, recursively adds subinterfaces to {@code target} */ private static void addAllInterfaces(List<NetworkInterface> target, List<NetworkInterface> level) { if (!level.isEmpty()) { target.addAll(level); for (NetworkInterface intf : level) { addAllInterfaces(target, Collections.list(intf.getSubInterfaces())); } } } }