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Class to Determine a Local Machine's IP Address

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This is a class for determining a local machine's IP address using iphlpapi or sockets and to convert between a couple of standard formats

Introduction

I would like to thank Igor Proskuriakov, Len Holgate, and Farooque Khan. My purpose for this class is to programatically determine the IP address that is assigned to a local machine. This class will return the machine's IP address in the form of a CString, a DWORD in host byte order, and a DWORD in network byte order.

IPAddressBase Class Usage

An object of this class will contain an IP address value and perform format conversion. The IP address is stored in a CString. Member functions have been provided to converted the stored CString to a network byte order DWORD or host byte order DWORD. The default constuctor initializes the class's data member m_csAddress to "127.0.0.1".
void SetHBO(DWORD dwInValue);
Member function SetHBO(DWORD dwInValue) takes a DWORD value(in host byte order) and coverts the value to a CString. The CString equivalent is then stored in m_csAddress;
void SetNBO(DWORD dwInValue);
Member function SetNBO(DWORD dwInValue) takes a DWORD value(in network byte order) and coverts the value to a CString. The CString equivalent is then stored in m_csAddress;
void SetString(CString csInString);
Member function SetString(CString csInString) takes a CString and stores the value in m_csAddress;
DWORD GetHBO()const;
Member function GetHBO()const coverts m_csAddress to a DWORD in host byte order and returns that converted value.
DWORD GetNBO()const;
Member function GetNBO()const coverts m_csAddress to a DWORD in network byte order and returns that converted value.
CString GetString()const;
Member function GetString()const returns m_csAddress.

LocalIPQuery Class Usage

This class performs the extraction of the machine's IP address/addresses. This class contains two different methods for extraction that are programmer selectable with conditional compilation. The container that holds the extracted IP address/addresses is a STL vector.

The LIPQ_MULTI method is derived from Farooque Khan's "Using IP Helper API’s" article. This method takes the local machine's TCP/IP table and extracts each active unique IP address on the local machine. The extracted values are stored as IPAddressBase objects in the vector.

The LIPQ_PORTABLE method is from http://tangentsoft.net/wskfaq/examples/ipaddr.html. This method extracts the local machine IP address from a socket it creates. The extracted value is stored as an IPAddressBase object in the vector. This method will only extract a single IP address, but it is portable since it uses sockets.

Selection of the methods is done in the LocalIPQuery.h file.

To use LIPQ_MULTI verify that the LocalIPQuery header file is configured as follows before compiling

// User must choose which method they want to use
//#define USE_THIS	LIPQ_PORTABLE
#define USE_THIS	LIPQ_MULTI
To use LIPQ_PORTABLE verify that the LocalIPQuery header file is configured as follows before compiling
// User must choose which method they want to use
#define USE_THIS	LIPQ_PORTABLE
//#define USE_THIS	LIPQ_MULTI

The Dialog App

The dialog app shows the extracted IP address/addresses and one way of using the LocalIPQuery class with an IP Address Control.

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Comments and Discussions

 
GeneralThings to improve. Pin
Len Holgate21-Aug-02 0:10
Len Holgate21-Aug-02 0:10 
GeneralRe: Things to improve. Pin
Igor Proskuriakov21-Aug-02 6:47
Igor Proskuriakov21-Aug-02 6:47 
GeneralRe: Things to improve. Pin
Len Holgate21-Aug-02 6:57
Len Holgate21-Aug-02 6:57 
GeneralRe: Things to improve. Pin
niverson24-Aug-02 14:32
niverson24-Aug-02 14:32 
GeneralRe: Things to improve. Pin
Len Holgate24-Aug-02 23:03
Len Holgate24-Aug-02 23:03 
GeneralRe: Things to improve. Pin
vmihalj13-Aug-03 22:59
vmihalj13-Aug-03 22:59 
GeneralUseless Pin
Igor Proskuriakov20-Aug-02 3:38
Igor Proskuriakov20-Aug-02 3:38 
GeneralRe: Useless Pin
Daniel Turini20-Aug-02 4:00
Daniel Turini20-Aug-02 4:00 
GeneralRe: Useless Pin
Igor Proskuriakov21-Aug-02 6:39
Igor Proskuriakov21-Aug-02 6:39 
GeneralRe: Useless Pin
niverson20-Aug-02 4:17
niverson20-Aug-02 4:17 
General192.168.x.x Pin
Swinefeaster19-Aug-02 10:52
Swinefeaster19-Aug-02 10:52 
GeneralRe: 192.168.x.x Pin
niverson19-Aug-02 13:40
niverson19-Aug-02 13:40 
I don't know of a way to do it programmatically. I'm not even close to being and expert on this, but I think your computer really only knows about what is on the internal network. I think the only device that has the outside IP address is your cable modem/DSL modem. There is a website (DSLreports) that will tell you your outside IP address, but that is not a programming solution. You might ask over at Farooque Khan's article.

Nate


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GeneralRe: 192.168.x.x Pin
David Simmonds20-Aug-02 5:00
David Simmonds20-Aug-02 5:00 
GeneralRe: 192.168.x.x Pin
Neville Franks20-Aug-02 12:07
Neville Franks20-Aug-02 12:07 

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