how get ip address on 2 network cards

hi, My machine has 2 network cards, and I use network card which is not default card connect to server. I wanna get ip address from this network card, but gethostbyname() give me only default ip address card which I don't want. What function should I use instead? or you guy has an brilliant idea with this function? Thank you in advance.

Yet another post which neglects any useful information, like which OS and compiler is being used.

I am so sorry for this topic, but I am actually a newbie. I am not good at socket programmimg, and I tried to find relate topic, but didn't find it. So what is the solution, or you can post the related topic, thank you.

Apparently you can't read either. Let's refresh your memory:

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Originally Posted by Salem

Yet another post which neglects any useful information, like which OS and compiler is being used.

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Quzah.

SunOS 5.8
gcc version 2.95.3
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Due to my project is an api, which is used for Linux, Sun, Windows, AIX , so I can't list you all information about OS and compiler. Sorry for neglect posting . :(

For Windows (using Winsock 2), use WSAIoctl() with SIO_GET_INTERFACE_LIST.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/186312/EN-US/

For *nix, use ioctl() with SIOCGIFCONF. Using this in a system independent manner is a mess. SVR4-based systems do it differently from BSD-based systems. You'll also find differences between Sun-OS versions themselves. There are several different code examples in comp.protocols.tcp-ip:
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...&q=SIOCGIFCONF

gg

ACE is a multi-platform communications library. ACE::get_ip_interfaces includes code to get interface addresses on more platforms than you could poke a stick at.

Thank you all of you,

I have another question to ask. I found bug with my api when I use my second network card to connect to server. how can I get actual ip of connecting network card (the second one) ? Because I used gethostbyname function and it gives me only primary ip of network card. Because my api project is a low level programming that mean it uses a basic function such a gethostbyname, gethostname, getsockname, etc. Which one of these functions can solve the problem? Thank you in advance.

the regular socket API (socket, accept, connect, send, recv, listen, bind, ...) is supported both by posix and MS compilers, so it's safe to assume portability to a large number of systems.

gethostbyname() returns a hostent struct pointer. Examine field h_addr_list
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/...s/netdb.h.html

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <cstring>

#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>

typedef unsigned long ip_t;

ip_t* gethostaddr(const char *hn,ip_t* ips = NULL,uint sz = 0){
        static const unsigned int IPBSSZ = 1024;
        static ip_t ipbs[IPBSSZ];
        if(ips==NULL){ ips=ipbs;sz=IPBSSZ; }
        else if(sz==0) return NULL;
        else if(sz==1){ *ips=0;return ips; }

        struct hostent *hostinfo = gethostbyname(hn);
        if(hostinfo!=NULL){
                uint k, szip = ((signed)sizeof(ip_t))>hostinfo->h_length?hostinfo->h_length:sizeof(ip_t);
                for(k=0;hostinfo->h_addr_list[k] && k+1<sz && k<(IPBSSZ-1);k++){
                        memcpy(ips+k,hostinfo->h_addr_list[k],szip);
                        ips[k] = ntohl(ips[k]);
                }
                ips[k]=0;
        }else{//probably was an ip
                ips[0]=inet_addr(hn);
                ips[1]=0;
        }
        return ips;
}

const char* inet_ipttoa(ip_t ip, char*b = NULL){
        static char ips[22];
        if(b==NULL) b=ips;
        sprintf(b,"%u.%u.%u.%u",(uint)((ip>>24)&0xff),(uint)((ip>>16)&0xff),(uint)((ip>>8)&0xff),(uint)((ip>>0)&0xff));
        return b;
}


int main(){
        ip_t* ips = gethostaddr("www.google.com");
       
        while( *ips )
                std::cout<<inet_ipttoa(*ips++)<<std::endl;
       
        return 0;
}

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output

Code:

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66.249.87.104
66.249.87.99

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to get the ips of your computer, use it's network name.