[PD] IP address of local machine

[Jack]

In Unix, all is a file, did you try to look inside the /proc/net
directory to find your local IP ?
Then, [text] can be used to load a specific file.
++

Jack



Le 17/12/2017 à 14:59, Roman Haefeli a écrit :
> On Son, 2017-12-17 at 10:48 +0000, Andy Farnell wrote:
> 
>> If the server is brokering the traffic then you never need to know 
>> the private network addresses as NAT will map them to public port
>> numbers and the router will map the returned packets back to local
>> addresses.
>>
>> But I guess you want to use the server to do peer discovery
>> and then having the two clients communicate directly.
> 
> Exactly, that's the idea.
> 
>>
>> Aren't there some more genral network utility objects in Pd?
> 
> Yes, iemnet comes with [tcpclient] and [udpclient], which accept and
> output bytes. They're pretty raw and probably close to your idea of a
> [sock] object. However, they don't output all properties of the current
> socket.
> 
> What I wish to be able to do is done in python like this:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import socket
> s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
> s.connect(("8.8.8.8", 53))
> print(s.getsockname()[0])
> s.close()
> 
> 
>> In my wishes we would have:
>> [tcpdump] and [hping], one to dump traffic, maybe in hex 
> 
> All networking objects, including the ones from vanilla, are able to
> deal with bytes represented as numbers. I think that's far more
> versatile in Pd to use than hex.
> 
>> to 
>> avoid Pd's fussiness about control characters, and one to 
>> craft any and all packets according to a template sent in 
>> a prior message.
>>
>> And to get really serious about Pd as a network utility
>> how about [sock], an object to be set up as a raw socket?
> 
> I think we're pretty well served with what we have already. What use
> cases do you have in mind that aren't covered yet?
> 
> Roman
> 
> 
> 
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