>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Barclay <alex@tfo-consulting.com> writes:

    Alex> I'm having trouble accessing the list of interfaces on the
    Alex> machine which is a NetBSD-current/i386 (Kernel is a 1.5U)

If it's simply a list of interface names that you're interested in, a
look at the (portable) if_nameindex(3) API might be helpful...