read IP address...

[lovlin]

Hi friends,
can anyone tell me how to read the IP address of the system from a C program..using ioctl calls and creating a raw socket.... something like
socket(AF_INET, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_RAW) and (ioctl(fd, SIOCGIFADDR, &ifr)
please help me if u have some other ideas or if u know something on this...
thanks....

[the_unforgiven]

what's wrong with gethostbyname()?
What you'd get with SIOCGIFADDR is the interface address (for ethernet, MAC address) structure - not just the IP address, but quite a lot of more information.

[lovlin]

Thanks for reply the_unforgiven,
but if i run this program i am getting the output something like this...
the ip address is 7012340l
Family is 101
the port is 2052
string is
..........
so how to extract the ip address from this.... ??
whether what i am doing is correct ???
and please please tell me how to use gethostname()....gimme a simple piece of code to illustrate !!!

#include<stdio.h>
#include<unistd.h>
#include<sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <net/if.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
int main()
{
        int fd;
        struct ifreq ifr;
        struct sockaddr_in saddr;
        fd=socket(PF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,0);
        strcpy(ifr.ifr_name,"name of interface");
        ioctl(fd,SIOCGIFADDR,&ifr);
        saddr=*((struct sockaddr_in *)(&(ifr.ifr_addr))); // is the address
        printf(" the ip address is %ul\n", saddr.sin_addr.s_addr);
        printf(" Family is %d\n", saddr.sin_family);
        printf(" the port is  %d\n", saddr.sin_port);
        printf(" string is  %s\n", saddr.sin_zero);
        return 0;
        //saddr.sin_addr.s_addr is the address of the interface in integer
        //format
}

thanks again...