In client-server approach, how to get an IP address of remote machine, and how we can find whether tht machine is connectedwith server or not. I hv found one solution is pinging in background, but how we can do such pinging? how can we find out tht we r getting reply of ping?

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Supraja

Feb 20th, 2006
you can know this by some code, ex applet.
Try with this: getInetAddress() on your Socket instance then it will give Ip Address.
else this shd also work
InetAddress localHost = InetAddress.getLocalHost();
InetAddress[] all_IPs = InetAddress.getAllByName(localHost.getHostName());
for (int i=0; i<all_IPs.length; i++) {
        System.out.println("IP address = " + all_IPs[i]);
}

suresh.bandlamudi
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Mar 11th, 2006

InetAddress localHost = InetAddress.getLocalHost();
InetAddress[] all_IPs = InetAddress.getAllByName(localHost.getHostName());
for (int i=0; i<all_IPs.length; i++) {
        System.out.println("IP address = " + all_IPs[i]);
}

the above program can work to find the ip address of remote machine

Parikshit Chuasma

Mar 26th, 2006

Well,
I think it will be better if a part of request, client itself passes its IP address information to the server. ( I know thereare several issues here ).
and secondly, If the client is able to send requests, then its connected. I don't think we should be writting the server application such that it keeps polling for every clients connected!
Correct me if I am wrong.