Thread: geting ipv4 and ipv6 interfaces with ioclt

Hi,
I hv a programme which returns the local ip(ipv4) address.
I want to improve this as to check the ip is whether ipv4 or ipv6 and return.
here is what i hv written so for to get ipv4 address.

Code:

in_addr_t dalesa_get_iface( int sock )
{
  //in_addr_t l_iface;
  static struct ifreq ifreqs[4]; // assumes no more than 4 interfaces configured. 
  struct ifconf ifconf;
  memset(&ifconf,0,sizeof(ifconf));
  ifconf.ifc_buf = (char*) (ifreqs);
  ifconf.ifc_len = sizeof(ifreqs);
  ioctl( sock, SIOCGIFCONF, ( char* )&ifconf );

  int nifaces =  ifconf.ifc_len/sizeof(struct ifreq);
  int i ;
  for( i=0; i<nifaces; i++ )
  {
    struct sockaddr sa = ifreqs[i].ifr_ifru.ifru_addr;
    struct sockaddr_in *sa_in = (struct sockaddr_in* )&sa;
    if ( sa_in->sin_addr.s_addr != 16777343)
    {
      printf("sa_in->sin_addr.sin_family = %i \n" ,AF_INET );
      return sa_in->sin_addr.s_addr;
    }
  }
  return 16777343; // 127.0.0.1
}

please help me how this can this be improved in order to return ipv4 or ipv6 address?


thanks.