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I am writing some sockets code in C++.
I am curious how I can if there is a funtion or environment variable
that I can use to locate the IP address of the local machine I am
working on.  I need to do this for some server stuff.  Any help
would be appreciated especially an example.  Thanks

-jean

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Quote:>I am writing some sockets code in C++.
>I am curious how I can if there is a funtion or environment variable
>that I can use to locate the IP address of the local machine I am
>working on.  I need to do this for some server stuff.  Any help
>would be appreciated especially an example.  Thanks

I don't mean to be rude, but it might be a good idea to read up on using
standard Berkeley socket functions; it sounds as though you don't really
understand how to use the functions at the moment! There are several
good books around which describe socket programming; Ralph Davis's
"Windows NT Network Programming" is excellent.

The standard way to retrieve the list of local IP addresses (there can
be more than one) is to first call "gethostname" to find the "network
name" of the local machine, and then call "gethostbyname" to get the IP
address list.

Chris

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Quote:>I am writing some sockets code in C++.
>I am curious how I can if there is a funtion or environment variable
>that I can use to locate the IP address of the local machine I am
>working on.  I need to do this for some server stuff.  Any help
>would be appreciated especially an example.  Thanks

>-jean

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Quote:>I am writing some sockets code in C++.
>I am curious how I can if there is a funtion or environment variable
>that I can use to locate the IP address of the local machine I am
>working on.  I need to do this for some server stuff.  Any help
>would be appreciated especially an example.  Thanks

HTH,

JJ

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