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Juggalo Memnoch

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Posted: 21st Mar 2011 17:26 Edited at: 21st Mar 2011 17:59

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Can anyone help me with displaying the Public and Local IP Addresses in the program?... I'm working on multi-player and I want to be able to have it displayed in the corner so the user doesn't have to waste time going to websites to find out their Public IP. And their local IP for LAN games.

Any help would be appreciated

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puppyofkosh

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Posted: 21st Mar 2011 22:45 Edited at: 21st Mar 2011 22:52

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This uses winsock:

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//First, make sure you have
#include "winsock2.h"
#pragma comment(lib, "ws2_32.lib")

	//gotta startup winsock
WSADATA wsaData;
int result = WSAStartup(MAKEWORD(2, 0), &wsaData);

char name[256];
gethostname(name, 256);//get the hostname
hostent* hostEntry;
hostEntry=gethostbyname(name);
char* localIP = inet_ntoa (*((in_addr*)*hostEntry->h_addr_list));
std::cout << localIP;


WSACleanup();

That'd be your local ip.

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Juggalo Memnoch

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Posted: 21st Mar 2011 22:52

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Thank you very much puppyofkosh!

Now if anyone else knows what to do for the Public Address....

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