[gameprogrammer] Re: "Network Byte Order" IP's to dotted-triplet format

Cool thanks, i think its all the same type of values, NET2_SDL, NET_SDL, 
etc....

Jake

Jeremy Vanseader wrote:

>Hey Jake,
>
>I'm not familiar with that networking library, but if you have a
>network byte order number, you can use ntohl() to convert it to host
>byte order and then pull out the numbers you want.  A snippet from my
>server is:
>
>int addr;
>char* place;
>...
>addr = ntohl(new_saddr.sin_addr.s_addr);
>sprintf(place,"%d.%d.%d.%d",(addr>>24)&0xff,(addr>>16)&0xff,(addr>>8)&0xff,(addr)&0xff);
>
>-Jeremy
>
>On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:58:41 +1300, Jake The Snake Briggs
><jacob_briggs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi all
>>I need to get the IP address of a socket. I am writing a multiplayer
>>game, basicly its "snake", but multiplayer. I want to write 3 programs,
>>a client game, a server, and a master server. I want to be able to tell
>>the master server to give me a list of all the game servers that are
>>registered with it. So far i have a crappy game server written, that can
>>register with the master server. I have a really crappy game client
>>written. I have the simple master sever 95% finished, and thats where my
>>problem lies.
>>I am using this function :
>>
>>IPaddress *NET2_TCPGetPeerAddress(int socket);
>>
>>because i am using Bob Pendletons NET2_SDL library. This fills the
>>specified IPaddress struct with the IP and Port of the socket in
>>"Network Byte Order" format. So i think (after a bit of googleing) i
>>understand what that is, and why its used.
>>At the moment i can go
>>telnet <masterserverip> <masterserverport>
>>then type
>>"servers"
>>and i get back a list of server ip's and ports. But I want them to be
>>the dotted triplet format, like 192.168.0.2 rather than 18328373673 or
>>whatever it is. How would one go about transforming Network Byte Order
>>to dotted format?
>>
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