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Sajad Bahmani
Sajad Bahmani

Reputation: 17459

Extract IP from connection that listen and accept in socket programming in Linux in c

In the following code I would like to extract the IP address of the connected client after accepting an incoming connection. What should I do after the accept() to achieve it?

int sockfd, newsockfd, portno, clilen;
portno = 8090;
clilen = 0;
pthread_t serverIn;
struct sockaddr_in serv_addr, cli_addr;
sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
if (sockfd < 0)
{
    perror("ERROR opening socket");
}
bzero((char *) & serv_addr, sizeof (serv_addr));
serv_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
serv_addr.sin_port = htons(portno);
serv_addr.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
if (bind(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *) & serv_addr, sizeof (serv_addr)) < 0)
{
    perror("ERROR on binding");
}

listen(sockfd, 5);
clilen = sizeof (cli_addr);
newsockfd = accept(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *) & cli_addr, &clilen);

Upvotes: 4

Views: 14170

Answers (5)

dhill
dhill

Reputation: 3447

The API is described in the manual pages. You can either browse them from the console, starting with man socket and follow references to man getpeername or use Konqueror, which renders it nicely with links, if you ask for #socket address. In my case on Kubuntu it was necessary to install manpages-dev package.

Upvotes: 1

Bandi-T
Bandi-T

Reputation: 3319

I think getpeername() is not needed - the client address is already filled into cli_addr by the accept() call.

You only need to use inet_ntop(), getnameinfo(), or gethostbyaddr() to print or get more information.

Upvotes: 2

Nikolai Fetissov
Nikolai Fetissov

Reputation: 84151

Your cli_addr already contains the IP address and port of the connected client after accept() returns successfully, in the same format as your serv_addr variable. Use inet_ntop to convert IP to a string.

Upvotes: 12

Sajad Bahmani
Sajad Bahmani

Reputation: 17459

You can follow this example :

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <stdio.h>

{
   int s;
   struct sockaddr_in peer;
   int peer_len;
   .
   .
   .
      /* We must put the length in a variable.              */
   peer_len = sizeof(peer);
      /* Ask getpeername to fill in peer's socket address.  */
   if (getpeername(s, &peer, &peer_len) == -1) {
      perror("getpeername() failed");
      return -1;
   }

      /* Print it. The IP address is often zero because     */
      /* sockets are seldom bound to a specific local       */
      /* interface.                                         */
   printf("Peer's IP address is: %s\n", inet_ntoa(peer.sin_addr));
   printf("Peer's port is: %d\n", (int) ntohs(peer.sin_port));
   .
   .
   .
}

Upvotes: 2

Tyler McHenry
Tyler McHenry

Reputation: 76640

getpeername()

See the helpful description of how to use it over at the indispensable Beej's Guide to Network Programming.

Upvotes: 7

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