IP Enumeration

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Environment: VC4, VC5, VC6

I think this is the quickest way to enumerate the available IP addresses on your machine. I’ve gotten this question a lot. This is fairly simple but haven’t seen it anywhere.

IP Enumeration


// Function GetIPs
// in : CStringArray
// out : CStringArray + count

int GetIPs( CStringArray &arrIPS )
{
BOOL bRet = TRUE;
char name[255];
int i=0;
PHOSTENT hostinfo;

//first, clear the list
arrIPS.RemoveAll();

//get the host name
if( gethostname ( name, sizeof(name)) == 0)
{
// get the host info
if((hostinfo = gethostbyname(name)) != NULL)
{
// now, loop until the address list = null
while( hostinfo->h_addr_list[i] != NULL )
{
//get the IP address
char *ip_addr = inet_ntoa (*(struct in_addr *)
hostinfo->h_addr_list[i]);
//add it to the array
ip_addr );
//increment the counter
i++;
}
}
}
//return the array count
return arrIPS.GetSize();
}

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