Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:41:43 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: serena zanetta <sz3003@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Send "connect" control message Message-ID: <7FBEC12F-B609-4413-878E-DC5434A02572@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <s2qb2ecfd381004060832oe4eaef4bp6fea1d4381590dcb@mail.gmail.com> References: <s2qb2ecfd381004060832oe4eaef4bp6fea1d4381590dcb@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi--
On Apr 6, 2010, at 8:32 AM, serena zanetta wrote:
> But first of all, I don't know how I can convert the IP_REMOTE, which is
> currently IP_REMOTE = "10.0.0.90", into a in_addr structure...
To convert a string to an IP address kept as an in_addr, you want inet_aton(), used like so:
const char *ipstr = "127.0.0.1";
struct in_addr ip;
if (!inet_aton(ipstr, &ip))
errx(1, "can't parse IP address %s", ipstr);
[ Example borrowed from "man gethostbyaddr" ]
Regards,
--
-Chuck
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