Re: Getting the local IP address! (was Re: Scanning machines on a network)

2002-03-15 Thread Dar Scott
On Friday, March 15, 2002, at 01:14 AM, andu wrote: > Connecting to your router should do, then. The idea is that if you > don't > want to or can't use built-in tools like ipconfig/ifconfig (must > be some > way for Mac too) you must use some external reference point to find out > the IP addre

Re: Getting the local IP address! (was Re: Scanning machines on a network)

2002-03-15 Thread andu
Dar Scott wrote: > > On Thursday, March 14, 2002, at 11:03 PM, andu wrote: > > On Linux as expected it doesn't work. > > Actually, I naively thought it would. Does it work for an Internet > address (such as that for yahoo.com) or for an arbitrary address in > your LAN subnet? Yes. > > > What

Re: Getting the local IP address! (was Re: Scanning machines on a network)

2002-03-14 Thread Dar Scott
On Thursday, March 14, 2002, at 11:03 PM, andu wrote: > On Linux as expected it doesn't work. Actually, I naively thought it would. Does it work for an Internet address (such as that for yahoo.com) or for an arbitrary address in your LAN subnet? > What exactly are you opening the > socket to

Re: Getting the local IP address! (was Re: Scanning machines on a network)

2002-03-14 Thread andu
Dar Scott wrote: > > On Monday, March 11, 2002, at 06:09 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: > > > Here is a script to get your local IP address and store it in a field: > > > > local testSock > > > > on mouseUp > > put line 1 of hostnametoaddress("yahoo.com")& ":80|testSocket" \ > > into testSock

Getting the local IP address! (was Re: Scanning machines on a network)

2002-03-14 Thread Dar Scott
On Monday, March 11, 2002, at 06:09 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: > Here is a script to get your local IP address and store it in a field: > > local testSock > > on mouseUp > put line 1 of hostnametoaddress("yahoo.com")& ":80|testSocket" \ > into testSock > open socket to testSock with mes

Re: Scanning machines on a network

2002-03-12 Thread Dar Scott
On Tuesday, March 12, 2002, at 04:46 PM, Dar Scott wrote: > Here are four of the ways I can send to myself: > > Destination IP Address IP Address given to handler > -- --- > 127.0.0.1 127.

Re: Scanning machines on a network

2002-03-12 Thread Dar Scott
On Tuesday, March 12, 2002, at 04:03 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: > There has been an alternative approach suggested: > > put hostnametoaddress(hostName()) into myIP > > but I found this didn't give any result as my hostName() is always > empty. My system does the same. > I too worried about

Re: Scanning machines on a network

2002-03-12 Thread Sarah Reichelt
There has been an alternative approach suggested: put hostnametoaddress(hostName()) into myIP but I found this didn't give any result as my hostName() is always empty. This may be because I am running on a LAN with a single IP address but multiple local addresses. I too worried about the et

Re: Scanning machines on a network

2002-03-12 Thread Dar Scott
On Monday, March 11, 2002, at 06:09 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote: > Here is a script to get your local IP address and store it in a field: Thanks, Sarah. I thought it would be something like that. I haven't tried this on a multi-homed system, but it looks to me that this approach allows implement

Re: Scanning machines on a network

2002-03-12 Thread Stgecft
Thank you Sarah, I have been reading along for weeks for this info. When I posed the question I did not get an answer. Thank you so much, now I can move on. Randy Kent Stagecraft, Inc. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.run

Re: Scanning machines on a network

2002-03-11 Thread Sarah Reichelt
> > My tinkering with Revolution has gotten to UDP. I have been able > get UDP working, so I think the above can be done in Revolution. > However, I don't have a way to get the local IP, yet. (Receiving > UDP is weird; at least it is the way I did it.) > Here is a script to get your local IP

Re: Scanning machines on a network

2002-03-10 Thread Dar Scott
On Sunday, March 10, 2002, at 01:54 PM, Dar Scott wrote: > On Sunday, March 10, 2002, at 12:00 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> A lot of software packages scan the local network to see if other >> copies of >> the software may be running with the same serial number. >> >> I've thought of many ways

Re: Scanning machines on a network

2002-03-10 Thread Dar Scott
On Sunday, March 10, 2002, at 12:00 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > A lot of software packages scan the local network to see if other > copies of > the software may be running with the same serial number. > > I've thought of many ways to accomplish this, but all of them seem > slow and > inefficien

Scanning machines on a network

2002-03-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
A lot of software packages scan the local network to see if other copies of the software may be running with the same serial number. I've thought of many ways to accomplish this, but all of them seem slow and inefficient. How is this done? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation C