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]

-d

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