Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 03 Nov 2000 13:09:27 -0800 | From | David Ford <> | Subject | Re: how to get IP address of current machine from C++ code? |
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Christopher Friesen wrote:
> I would like to get the IP address of one of the interfaces of the > machine that I'm currently on from within some C++ code. It looks like > I should be able to do this by doing an > > ioctl(atoi(fd, SIOCGIFADDR, &ifr) > > with the interface name set in the appropriate field in ifr, but I'm not > sure how I should be getting the proper value for fd. I would > appreciate some help on this, or if there is a better way then I'd love > to hear it.
This isn't c++, it's plain c, but it's easy to grok. Called as: gi [interface]
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/* * short hack to grab interface information * gcc -o gi gi.c; strip gi * * Blu3, Jan 1999 */
#include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/socket.h> #include <arpa/inet.h> #include <net/if.h> #include <netinet/in.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h>
#define SIOCGIFCONF 0x8912 /* get iface list */
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int numreqs = 30, sd, n, search, tick, found=0; struct ifconf ifc; struct ifreq *ifr; struct in_addr *ia;
// // if there is an arg on the command line, print out the ip of that device // only. note the numreqs in the above, modify that as is desired.
search= (argc>1); if(search && strlen(argv[1]) > 64) { fprintf(stderr, "specified device name too large, ignoring\n"); search=0; }
sd=socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0); ifc.ifc_buf = NULL; ifc.ifc_len = sizeof(struct ifreq) * numreqs; ifc.ifc_buf = realloc(ifc.ifc_buf, ifc.ifc_len); if (ioctl(sd, SIOCGIFCONF, &ifc) < 0) { perror("SIOCGIFCONF"); } ifr = ifc.ifc_req; for (n = 0; n < ifc.ifc_len; n += sizeof(struct ifreq)) { ia= (struct in_addr *) ((ifr->ifr_ifru.ifru_addr.sa_data)+2); if(search) tick= strcmp(ifr->ifr_ifrn.ifrn_name, argv[1]);
if(!search) fprintf(stdout, "%6s %-15s\n", ifr->ifr_ifrn.ifrn_name, inet_ntoa(*ia)); if (search && (tick==0)) { fprintf(stdout, "%s\n", inet_ntoa(*ia)); found=1; } ifr++; }
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