[erlang-questions] : Finding IP addresses in a PC

[Raimo Niskanen]

This is absolutely a bug, that we have not had time to 
investigate. We can reproduce it easily. All windows
machines seem to exhibit this behaviour.

We will see when we can find the time to correct it...



On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:50:45AM +0530, Surindar Sivanesan wrote:
> The following code might return the correct IP by calling ip:list() from erl
> shell
> 
> 
> 
> -module(ip).
> -export([list/0]).
> 
> list()->
> IpAddress=inet:getiflist(),
> case IpAddress of
>  {ok,IpList}->
>    format_ip(IpList,[]);
>  _->
>   io:fwrite("Error ~p in getting ip list\n",[IpAddress])
> end.
> 
> format_ip(Iplist,FormatedList)->
> case Iplist of
>  []->
>   FormatedList;
>  _->
>   Ip=hd(Iplist),
>   ReversedIp=lists:reverse(string:tokens(Ip,".")),
>   FormatedIP=check_ip(ReversedIp,""),
>   format_ip(tl(Iplist),FormatedList++[FormatedIP])
> end.
> 
> check_ip(IpList,Return)->
> case IpList of
>  []->
>   Return;
>  _->
>   IpPart=lists:reverse(hd(IpList)),
>   case length(IpPart) of
>    3->
>     NewPart=integer_to_list(list_to_integer(IpPart)),
>     case Return of
>      ""->
>       check_ip(tl(IpList),Return++NewPart);
>      _->
>       check_ip(tl(IpList),Return++"."++NewPart)
>     end;
>    2->
>     NewPart=integer_to_list(list_to_integer(IpPart++"0")),
>     case Return of
>      ""->
>       check_ip(tl(IpList),Return++NewPart);
>      _->
>       check_ip(tl(IpList),Return++"."++NewPart)
>     end;
>    1->
>     NewPart=integer_to_list(list_to_integer(IpPart++"00")),
>     case Return of
>      ""->
>       check_ip(tl(IpList),Return++NewPart);
>      _->
>       check_ip(tl(IpList),Return++"."++NewPart)
>     end;
>    _->
>     io:fwrite("Illegal IP length\n")
>   end
> end.
> 
> 
> On 10/3/06, Shelton Tang <shelton.ms@REDACTED> wrote:
> >
> >I have one NIC with the address {192,168,0,150} on my Vista machine.
> >If I call inet:getiflist(),  it returns
> >["51.0.861.291","100.0.0.721"].
> >
> >Anybody know how to convert it to a valid format?
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> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> with regards,
> S.Surindar

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