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Is there a way to reliably detect whether or not a machine is multihomed? I'd like to be able to write a script that will return a true or false regarding that information. Thanks.

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How are you defining multi-homed? Multiple up-stream links, multiple network interfaces, multiple IP addresses? Having ip_forwarding enabled? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multihoming#Multihoming_variants – Zoredache Nov 9 '11 at 2:24
Ideally, all of those situations should be detected, though I don't need to identify which one is present. I realize this may not be a trivial task, but I'm researching my options at this point. – noisesolo Nov 9 '11 at 19:22

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You can approximate the definition of a multihomed machine as one having two default routes. A more precise definition would require determining how independent the routes are, which does seem daunting.

route -n | awk '$1 == "0.0.0.0" {++r} END {exit(r<2)}'
route -n --inet6 | awl '$1 == "::/0" {++r} END {exit(r<2)}'

(The Solaris calls may require tweaking.)

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