On Mon, 5 May 2003, sriram_ns wrote:
> How to get the local ip-address of the PC from within a
> program.
You can use socket ioctl() calls. Below is a generic program which lists
a number of parameters for each interface. It does a lot more than what
you are specifically asking, but in the process demonstrates how to select
on a number of different criteria. For example, you can use it to show
only information about ethernet interfaces, or only PPP, or whatever.
You'll need to trim out the parts unnecessary for you program.
(Credit goes to Floyd Davidson, afaik).
/*
* display info about network interfaces
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <net/if.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <net/if_arp.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#define inaddrr(x) (*(struct in_addr *) &ifr->x[sizeof sa.sin_port])
#define IFRSIZE ((int)(size * sizeof (struct ifreq)))
int main(void)
{
unsigned char *u;
int sockfd, size = 1;
struct ifreq *ifr;
struct ifconf ifc;
struct sockaddr_in sa;
if (0 > (sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP))) {
fprintf(stderr, "Cannot open socket.\n");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
ifc.ifc_len = IFRSIZE;
ifc.ifc_req = NULL;
do {
++size;
/* realloc buffer size until no overflow occurs */
if (NULL == (ifc.ifc_req = realloc(ifc.ifc_req, IFRSIZE))) {
fprintf(stderr, "Out of memory.\n");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
ifc.ifc_len = IFRSIZE;
if (ioctl(sockfd, SIOCGIFCONF, &ifc)) {
perror("ioctl SIOCFIFCONF");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
} while (IFRSIZE <= ifc.ifc_len);
ifr = ifc.ifc_req;
for (;(char *) ifr < (char *) ifc.ifc_req + ifc.ifc_len; ++ifr) {
if (ifr->ifr_addr.sa_data == (ifr+1)->ifr_addr.sa_data) {
continue; /* duplicate, skip it */
}
if (ioctl(sockfd, SIOCGIFFLAGS, ifr)) {
continue; /* failed to get flags, skip it */
}
printf("Interface: %s\n", ifr->ifr_name);
printf("IP Address: %s\n", inet_ntoa(inaddrr(ifr_addr.sa_data)));
/*
This won't work on HP-UX 10.20 as there's no SIOCGIFHWADDR ioctl. You'll
need to use DLPI or the NETSTAT ioctl on /dev/lan0, etc (and you'll need
to be root to use the NETSTAT ioctl. Also this is deprecated and doesn't
work on 11.00).
On Digital Unix you can use the SIOCRPHYSADDR ioctl according to an old
utility I have. Also on SGI I think you need to use a raw socket, e.g. s
= socket(PF_RAW, SOCK_RAW, RAWPROTO_SNOOP)
Dave
From: David Peter <dave.peter@eu.citrix.com>
*/
if (0 == ioctl(sockfd, SIOCGIFHWADDR, ifr)) {
/* Select which hardware types to process.
*
* See list in system include file included from
* /usr/include/net/if_arp.h (For example, on
* Linux see file /usr/include/linux/if_arp.h to
* get the list.)
*/
switch (ifr->ifr_hwaddr.sa_family) {
default:
printf("\n");
continue;
case ARPHRD_NETROM: case ARPHRD_ETHER: case ARPHRD_PPP:
case ARPHRD_EETHER: case ARPHRD_IEEE802: break;
}
u = (unsigned char *) &ifr->ifr_addr.sa_data;
if (u[0] + u[1] + u[2] + u[3] + u[4] + u[5]) {
printf("HW Address: %2.2x.%2.2x.%2.2x.%2.2x.%2.2x.%2.2x\n",
u[0], u[1], u[2], u[3], u[4], u[5]);
}
}
if (0 == ioctl(sockfd, SIOCGIFNETMASK, ifr) &&
strcmp("255.255.255.255", inet_ntoa(inaddrr(ifr_addr.sa_data)))) {
printf("Netmask: %s\n", inet_ntoa(inaddrr(ifr_addr.sa_data)));
}
if (ifr->ifr_flags & IFF_BROADCAST) {
if (0 == ioctl(sockfd, SIOCGIFBRDADDR, ifr) &&
strcmp("0.0.0.0", inet_ntoa(inaddrr(ifr_addr.sa_data)))) {
printf("Broadcast: %s\n", inet_ntoa(inaddrr(ifr_addr.sa_data)));
}
}
if (0 == ioctl(sockfd, SIOCGIFMTU, ifr)) {
printf("MTU: %u\n", ifr->ifr_mtu);
}
if (0 == ioctl(sockfd, SIOCGIFMETRIC, ifr)) {
printf("Metric: %u\n", ifr->ifr_metric);
} printf("\n");
}
close(sockfd);
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
--
JiKos.
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