RE: Subject: Re: A program to get the IP address of the Internet connection.

["Jeffrey Silberberg" <jsilberberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,

    No I do not believe that this will get the IP answer that the user is
looking for, rather this will return the source address that the session
which executes this code is started from.  An even then you need to be
careful of how your FireWall is setup as I think in a NAT configuration you
might get the NAT address not the users original address..

    What I think the original question is trying to get at is the address
assigned by the ISP DHCP server to the PPP connection request originated by
the AS/400 to the ISP.  Or maybe it's a router doing the PPP request.  I
would have to look at some manuals before I would hazard a guess as to which
IP API might get this specific address but it should (QUOTE) be retrievable.

Jeffrey M. Silberberg
CompuDesigns, Inc.
(770) 399-9464

Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy.
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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 22:37:31 -0600
From: "Joe Teff" <jteff19@idt.net>
Subject: Re: A program to get the IP address of the Internet connection.

> Would anyone possibly be willing to share a program that could get the IP
> address the 400 is connected to the internet with?
> I am connecting to the ISP with dynamic IP addressing.  I'd like to bring
> the IP address into a program so I can use it to keep the 400 alive and so
> I can use it to know when I am connected.  I'm on V4R4.

    < CODE SNIPED >

I can't take credit for this code as I got it from this list on an earlier
date.

Joe Teff

    < SNIP >

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