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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: How to get current IP adress ?
From:       John Corey <jcorey () fruity ! ath ! cx>
Date:       1999-10-03 23:10:30
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> > > Yes, like the ip i get when i look at ppp0 at ifconfig. But a more portable
> > > posibility !
> >
> > What's unportable with ifconfig?
> 
> ifconfig on different platforms has very different looking output. There
> may not be a completley portable way to get the IP address of an
> interface, bit must every platform I've ever used has had an ioctl() (or
> similar) interface to get that kind of information.
> 

How about breaking open the sources to ifconfig and see where it gets
the IP from?

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