HELP: Multiple IP Address

Hello all,

I have a NIC and a modem. I use the modem to connect to the internet, as below:

Code:

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Windows 2000 IP Configuration

        Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : zlg
        Primary DNS Suffix  . . . . . . . :
        Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Mixed
        IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes
        WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Winbond W89C940 PCI Ethernet Adapter
        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . :
        DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
        DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . :
        NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled

PPP adapter StarHub Free Internet:

        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface
        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . :
        DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 203.117.123.170
        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 203.117.123.170
        DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 203.117.33.19
                                            203.117.33.18
        NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled

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Question: When I use Winsock control in vb to detect the ip address, all it give me is the one for Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection. Any idea how to make it so that I can obtain the one for PPP adapter StarHub Free Internet???





THANX!



Sze Leung

[Edited by zlg on 01-16-2001 at 08:16 AM]

Right, I have had this problem, and it was not the easiest one to solve. Firstly I trust the command that you are using to retrieve the IP address is something like:

text1.text=winsock1.localIP

right, now this will retrive your Nic IP, (but im sure that you will know that already). Right, now in order to solve the problem you will need to manipulate the registry, as the winsock control will not do it, as the NiC takes preference.

Right, before you do anything, you need to know how to retrieve data from the registry, there is info about this on vb-world (though I cant remember where, sorry!).

Now connect to the internet, I understand your using Windows NT 5.0 (2000) thats good, right you need to find your IP before you start, the best way is connect to an Irc server which will tell you your address, eg 62.255.212.111

Now you have founf this, goto Start -> run and type in regedit

Once it opens search the registry for that IP, and it should locate the data in HKEY_Local_Machine -> and in the Winsocks5 sub directory (I think) though im not at home right now so I cant be fully sure :-).

Basically, although the exact locations are vague that is how to do it. I have done the same thing on Windows NT 4.0 and im betting that the two are not dis-similar.

If you would like a sample programme of how to do this, I would be happy to send you the one that I have created, if you send me an email at:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=the two ip's">[email protected]</a>

Hope this was reasonably helpful.

=A

Thanx for the help, but i think i would rather not touch the reg.

I found another stack of codes, WHICH I DUN UNDERSTAND AT ALL...

Here goes...

Code:

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'MICROSOFT MSDN

Option Explicit

Private Const WS_VERSION_REQD = &H101
Private Const WS_VERSION_MAJOR = WS_VERSION_REQD \ &H100 And &HFF&
Private Const WS_VERSION_MINOR = WS_VERSION_REQD And &HFF&
Private Const MIN_SOCKETS_REQD = 1
Private Const SOCKET_ERROR = -1
Private Const WSADescription_Len = 256
Private Const WSASYS_Status_Len = 128
Private Const strWinsockNotResponding As String = "Winsock.dll is not responding"
Private Const strWinsockError As String = "Windows Sockets error "
Private Const strCouldNotGetIP As String = "Could not start Winsock services"

Private Type HOSTENT
    hName As Long
    hAliases As Long
    hAddrType As Integer
    hLength As Integer
    hAddrList As Long

End Type

Private Type WSADATA
    wversion As Integer
    wHighVersion As Integer
    szDescription(0 To WSADescription_Len) As Byte
    szSystemStatus(0 To WSASYS_Status_Len) As Byte
    iMaxSockets As Integer
    iMaxUdpDg As Integer
    lpszVendorInfo As Long

End Type

Private Declare Function WSAGetLastError Lib "WSOCK32.DLL" () As Long
Private Declare Function WSAStartup Lib "WSOCK32.DLL" (ByVal wVersionRequired As Integer, lpWSAData As WSADATA) As Long
Private Declare Function WSACleanup Lib "WSOCK32.DLL" () As Long
Private Declare Function gethostname Lib "WSOCK32.DLL" (ByVal hostname$, ByVal HostLen As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function gethostbyname Lib "WSOCK32.DLL" (ByVal hostname$) As Long
Private Declare Sub RtlMoveMemory Lib "KERNEL32" (hpvDest As Any, ByVal hpvSource&, ByVal cbCopy&)

Function hibyte(ByVal wParam As Integer)
    hibyte = wParam \ &H100 And &HFF&

End Function

Function lobyte(ByVal wParam As Integer)
    lobyte = wParam And &HFF&

End Function

Function SocketsInitialize() As String
Dim WSAD As WSADATA
Dim iReturn As Integer
Dim sLowByte, sHighbyte, sMsg As String

    iReturn = WSAStartup(WS_VERSION_REQD, WSAD)

    If iReturn <> 0 Then
        SocketsInitialize = strWinsockNotResponding
        Exit Function
   
    End If

    If lobyte(WSAD.wversion) < WS_VERSION_MAJOR Or (lobyte(WSAD.wversion) = _
        WS_VERSION_MAJOR And hibyte(WSAD.wversion) < WS_VERSION_MINOR) Then

        sHighbyte = Trim$(Str$(hibyte(WSAD.wversion)))
        sLowByte = Trim$(Str$(lobyte(WSAD.wversion)))
        SocketsInitialize = "Windows Sockets version " & sLowByte & "." & sHighbyte & _
        " is not supported by winsock.dll "
        Exit Function
   
    End If

    'iMaxSockets is not used in winsock 2. So the following check is only
    'necessary for winsock 1. If winsock 2 is requested,
    'the following check can be skipped.

    If WSAD.iMaxSockets < MIN_SOCKETS_REQD Then
        SocketsInitialize = "This application requires a minimum of " & _
        Trim$(Str$(MIN_SOCKETS_REQD)) & " supported sockets."
        Exit Function
   
    End If
   
    SocketsInitialize = ""

End Function

Function SocketsCleanup() As String
    Dim lReturn As Long

    lReturn = WSACleanup()

    If lReturn <> 0 Then
        SocketsCleanup = "Socket error " & Trim$(Str$(lReturn)) & " occurred in Cleanup "
        Exit Function
   
    End If

End Function

Public Function GetLocalIPAddress(strIPAddresses() As String) As String
    Dim hostname As String * 256
    Dim hostent_addr As Long
    Dim host As HOSTENT
    Dim hostip_addr As Long
    Dim temp_ip_address() As Byte
    Dim i As Integer
    Dim ip_address As String
    Dim intCounter As Integer
    Dim strErrorMessage As String

    strErrorMessage = SocketsInitialize
   
    If strErrorMessage = "" Then
        If gethostname(hostname, 256) = SOCKET_ERROR Then
            GetLocalIPAddress = strWinsockError & Str(WSAGetLastError())
            Exit Function
       
        Else
            hostname = Trim$(hostname)
       
        End If
       
        hostent_addr = gethostbyname(hostname)
       
        If hostent_addr = 0 Then
            GetLocalIPAddress = strWinsockNotResponding
            Exit Function
           
        End If
       
        RtlMoveMemory host, hostent_addr, LenB(host)
        RtlMoveMemory hostip_addr, host.hAddrList, 4
       
        'get all of the IP address if machine is  multi-homed
   
        Do
            ReDim temp_ip_address(1 To host.hLength)
            RtlMoveMemory temp_ip_address(1), hostip_addr, host.hLength
           
            For i = 1 To host.hLength
                ip_address = ip_address & temp_ip_address(i) & "."
           
            Next
           
            ip_address = Mid$(ip_address, 1, Len(ip_address) - 1)
            ReDim Preserve strIPAddresses(intCounter)
            strIPAddresses(intCounter) = ip_address
           
            ip_address = ""
            host.hAddrList = host.hAddrList + LenB(host.hAddrList)
            RtlMoveMemory hostip_addr, host.hAddrList, 4
           
            intCounter = intCounter + 1
       
        Loop While (hostip_addr <> 0)
   
        SocketsCleanup
        GetLocalIPAddress = ""
   
    Else
        GetLocalIPAddress = strErrorMessage
   
    End If

End Function

' Returns the user's Internet address, not one from his local pool of IP addresses (if
' the user has some LAN cards and/or a modem).
Public Function GetInternetAddress() As String
    Dim strAllIPAddresses() As String
    DoEvents
    If GetLocalIPAddress(strAllIPAddresses()) = "" Then
        GetInternetAddress = strAllIPAddresses(UBound(strAllIPAddresses()))
    Else
        GetInternetAddress = ""
    End If
End Function



Sub Main()
    MsgBox GetInternetAddress()
End Sub

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Will someone please try to explain to me? I am just a miserable beginner...

Hiya

well to be honest, and I don't mean this disrespectful, but if you're a beginner *and* this code works, use it and don't ask questions..

As soon as u have an idea on how the API works and more stuff of the like, go look through the code again.

Waxxx

(If it workx, why fix it?)

I think i have some idea about how API work.

API is something like a complied list of function...
Include the (normally dll) file and define the function and you can use the function like any other.

The thing i dun understand is how u people know what's inside a dll file? How do you know the names of the functions and what they do or what they return? Maybe there is an api reader of some sort...

Please correct me if i am wrong or something.

Thanx.

and by the way, is just-accept-facts-and-no-understand how u learn things?