[usocket-devel] Determining the local host address from wildcard host

[Hans Hübner]

Elliott,

to my knowledge, usocket does not provide an API to get a list of all
network interfaces, which is what you need to do if you want to know
the local IP address(es).

One quick workaround is to invoke ifconfig and parse the output.  I
know that this is not a very satisfying or portable approach, but it
is quick.

-Hans

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 07:20, Elliott Slaughter
<elliottslaughter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm wondering if there is any way to determine the local host address (or
> addresses) used when I create a socket with :local-host *wildcard-host* .
> When I try to call get-local-address on such a socket, I just get #(0 0 0
> 0).
> Thanks.
>
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