Get IP Address using DPlay 7 (Or in any other way)

[Arie]

Subject says it all.

How do I get my IP address when I use DirectPlay 7?
I am building a multiplayer game, when hosting, I'll need to give
my IP to my friend that wants to connect. He needs my IP to connect, right? right.

So how do I get my IP address?

Thank you,
Arie.

[jonask]

Well, you COULD add a winsock controler, connet it to www.myip.com/ by posing as a web client. And then parse the text it sends back =) that's what I would have done, anyways.

This would of course just give you the ip that connected to the myip.com server, so if your behind a proxy it would most likly not work...

[alkatran]

Add a winsock control to a form and put the following code:

sub form_load()
msgbox Winsock.LocalIP
'Name the winsock control "Winsock", duh
end sub

[jonask]

That would only work if he's the ONLY computer sharing an internet connection. Most of the time you need the ip of your dsl modem or router. I guess

[Arie]

Is that the only way? 'Cause I'm using it now.
I don't like to add controls to my projects.

Arie.

[jonask]

Yeah, that's the only way at least that I'm aware of...
If youre affraid that people havn't got the winsock controler installed (I don't think win2000 has it as default) you can just put the dll or ocx or whatever it was in your game dir and ship it along with your game. Thats what I allways do =)

[Electroman]

This might help: http://www.gamedev.net/community/for...opic_id=152760
I'm yet to use DPlay and barely used much C++ but this guy seemed to have your problem and it was solved at the end .

[Arie]

It's no use. I don't understand what he does there.
I searched for this problem in Google.
Found some pages that says that I can use the Registry to see my IP address. But how??

[Arie]

Please help!! Answer my last question...

[Electroman]

Did they say where in the registry? Or is that a silly question.
I've searched google but it seems to disagree that the registry has the IP address in it .

[Arie]

This code does not work:

Public Function GetIPAddress() As String
  Dim keyServiceName As String
  Dim keyInterfaces As String
  Dim strServiceName As String
  Dim strIPAddress As String
 
  keyServiceName = "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkCards\12"
  keyInterfaces = "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces"
 
  Set Reg = New Registry
  Reg.GetKeyValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, keyServiceName, "ServiceName", strServiceName
  keyInterfaces = keyInterfaces & "\" & strServiceName
  R = Reg.GetKeyValue(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, keyInterfaces, "IPAddress", strIPAddress)
  GetIPAddress = strIPAddress
End Function

Now what?

Arie.

[Electroman]

I'm more surprised DPlay does actually tell you the IP. Did you check the Dx SDK?

[Arie]

I really don't know how. Can you or someone else check it for me?

[Arie]

Did someone check the DX SDK for me??

I need the answer for it... please..
There's gotta be some way to do this. If not, say it here.

Arie.