DescribeNetworkInterfaces - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (original) (raw)

Describes the specified network interfaces or all your network interfaces.

If you have a large number of network interfaces, the operation fails unless you use pagination or one of the following filters: group-id, mac-address, private-dns-name, private-ip-address, subnet-id, or vpc-id.

Important

We strongly recommend using only paginated requests. Unpaginated requests are susceptible to throttling and timeouts.

Request Parameters

The following parameters are for this specific action. For more information about required and optional parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Query Parameters.

DryRun

Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation. Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

Filter.N

One or more filters.

Type: Array of Filter objects

Required: No

MaxResults

The maximum number of items to return for this request. To get the next page of items, make another request with the token returned in the output. You cannot specify this parameter and the network interface IDs parameter in the same request. For more information, see Pagination.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 5. Maximum value of 1000.

Required: No

NetworkInterfaceId.N

The network interface IDs.

Default: Describes all your network interfaces.

Type: Array of strings

Required: No

NextToken

The token returned from a previous paginated request. Pagination continues from the end of the items returned by the previous request.

Type: String

Required: No

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

networkInterfaceSet

Information about the network interfaces.

Type: Array of NetworkInterface objects

nextToken

The token to include in another request to get the next page of items. This value is null when there are no more items to return.

Type: String

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: String

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common client error codes.

Examples

Example 1

This example describes all your network interfaces.

Sample Request

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=DescribeNetworkInterfaces
&AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response

<DescribeNetworkInterfacesResponse xmlns="http://ec2.amazonaws.com/doc/2016-11-15/">
    <requestId>fc45294c-006b-457b-bab9-012f5b3b0e40</requestId>
     <networkInterfaceSet>
       <item>
         <networkInterfaceId>eni-0f62d866</networkInterfaceId>
         <subnetId>subnet-c53c87ac</subnetId>
         <vpcId>vpc-cc3c87a5</vpcId>
         <availabilityZone>api-southeast-1b</availabilityZone>
         <description/>
         <ownerId>053230519467</ownerId>
         <requesterManaged>false</requesterManaged>
         <status>in-use</status>
         <macAddress>02:81:60:cb:27:37</macAddress>
         <privateIpAddress>10.0.0.146</privateIpAddress>
         <sourceDestCheck>true</sourceDestCheck>
         <groupSet>
           <item>
             <groupId>sg-3f4b5653</groupId>
             <groupName>default</groupName>
           </item>
         </groupSet>
         <attachment>
           <attachmentId>eni-attach-6537fc0c</attachmentId>
           <instanceId>i-1234567890abcdef0</instanceId>
           <instanceOwnerId>053230519467</instanceOwnerId>
           <deviceIndex>0</deviceIndex>
           <status>attached</status>
           <attachTime>2012-07-01T21:45:27.000Z</attachTime>
           <deleteOnTermination>true</deleteOnTermination>
         </attachment>
         <tagSet/>
         <privateIpAddressesSet>
           <item>
             <privateIpAddress>10.0.0.146</privateIpAddress>
             <primary>true</primary>
           </item>
           <item>
             <privateIpAddress>10.0.0.148</privateIpAddress>
             <primary>false</primary>
           </item>
           <item>
             <privateIpAddress>10.0.0.150</privateIpAddress>
             <primary>false</primary>
           </item>
         </privateIpAddressesSet>
         <ipv6AddressesSet/>
       </item>
       <item>
         <networkInterfaceId>eni-a66ed5cf</networkInterfaceId>
         <subnetId>subnet-cd8a35a4</subnetId>
         <vpcId>vpc-f28a359b</vpcId>
         <availabilityZone>ap-southeast-1b</availabilityZone>
         <description>Primary network interface</description>
         <ownerId>053230519467</ownerId>
         <requesterManaged>false</requesterManaged>
         <status>in-use</status>
         <macAddress>02:78:d7:00:8a:1e</macAddress>
         <privateIpAddress>10.0.1.233</privateIpAddress>
         <sourceDestCheck>true</sourceDestCheck>
         <groupSet>
           <item>
             <groupId>sg-a2a0b2ce</groupId>
             <groupName>quick-start-1</groupName>
           </item>
         </groupSet>
         <attachment>
           <attachmentId>eni-attach-a99c57c0</attachmentId>
           <instanceId>i-0598c7d356eba48d7</instanceId>
           <instanceOwnerId>053230519467</instanceOwnerId>
           <deviceIndex>0</deviceIndex>
           <status>attached</status>
           <attachTime>2012-06-27T20:08:44.000Z</attachTime>
           <deleteOnTermination>true</deleteOnTermination>
         </attachment>
         <tagSet/>
         <privateIpAddressesSet>
           <item>
             <privateIpAddress>10.0.1.233</privateIpAddress>
             <primary>true</primary>
           </item>
           <item>
             <privateIpAddress>10.0.1.20</privateIpAddress>
             <primary>false</primary>
           </item>
         </privateIpAddressesSet>
         <ipv6AddressesSet>
          <item>
            <ipv6Address>2001:db8:1234:1a00::123</ipv6Address>
          </item>
          <item>
            <ipv6Address>2001:db8:1234:1a00::456</ipv6Address>
          </item>
        </ipv6AddressesSet>
       </item>
     </networkInterfaceSet>
</DescribeNetworkInterfacesResponse>

Example 2

This example uses a filter to describe only network interfaces that are in Availability Zone us-east-2a.

Sample Request

https://ec2.amazonaws.com/?Action=DescribeNetworkInterfaces
&Filter.1.Name=availability-zone
&Filter.1.Value.1=us-east-2a
&AUTHPARAMS

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: