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Hi Scott Thanks a lot for the explanation. The scenario for which I'm working is given below:- I need to retrieve the IP address of the machines dynamically into a variable in the CL program. I need to make this information available to an interfaced system that might need this for FTP purposes. The actual IP is needed as the alias name is not available to the other system. Actual Scenario: Same application is running in 3 AS/400 machines and all these 3 AS/400 machines are communicating with a third party system residing in a non AS/400 machine, through a single interface system running in one of the AS/400 machine. I should retrieve the IP address of the right machine as per the process and inform the non as/400 system. I have the constraint of being unable to use hard coding or keeping the IP on a control file. Hope it explains my scenario. Please suggest me a best approach for this scenario. Thanks & Regards Sivasubrahmanian. A Project Engineer Wipro Technologies (Finance & Insurance) Electronics City, Bangalore, India Phone - 8520408/8520416 x - 4364. -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-bounces@midrange.com [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@midrange.com] On Behalf Of Scott Klement Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 3:57 PM To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion Subject: Re: IP Address of AS/400 Machine On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, A. Sivasubrahmanian wrote: > > How to retrieve the IP address of AS/400 machine? Any help / pointers to > the solution is highly appreciated. > It's 127.0.0.1 :) Seriously, though. Everything TCP/IP-enabled computer has at least two IP addresses. The 127.0.0.1 is one of them, and the other depends on the network that it is connected to. Many computers have more than two. For example, if you are connected with both PPP (to an ISP) and ethernet (to your LAN) you've got three IP addresses, one of the LAN, one for PPP and 127.0.0.1 (which is the "loopback" address that always means "same machine") It's possible for your system to have hundreds of IP addresses, which might be useful if you're doing virtual hosting, or something similar. If you just want to see what your system is currently using, type CFGTCP and choose option 1. If you need to do this programmatically, please explain why. Explain what your program will do with this address, then I'll tell you what your best alternative is...
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