Using TCP/IP

[jblazi]

On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 13:56:59 -0400, Peter Hansen wrote:

> jblazi wrote:
>> 
>> First I wanted to write my own course but the official
>> tutorial is virtually perfect. The first program we shall write is a
>> mastermind program and it would be nice if my pupils could play that over
>> the internet too. The first point is that they have not permanent ip
>> numbers so the ip number has to be found out first.
> 
> Most programs don't try to figure out the IP address of the machine on which
> they are running.  Instead, they require the IP address of the *other* machine
> to which they will talk.  For that, you could just have the students type
> "ipconfig" at a command line and save yourself the trouble.  As others have
> pointed out, in many situations, probably such as would always exist at a 
> school, machines on the network are not given "routable" (public) IP addresses
> and you couldn't connect to them from the Internet anyway.
> 
> Another approach is to have a central server which handles the match-making
> process.  Then the only thing needed is the address of that server.
> 
> My suggestion is you cut scope and skip this whole aspect, and just 
> assume the address information is available externally to the program.
> That's how 99.9% of similar software works.

Thx.
So I shall do this. When I call ipconfig, I see two ip adresses:


Ethernetadapter LAN-Verbindung:

        Verbindungsspezifisches DNS-Suffix:
        IP-Adresse (Autokonfig.). . . . . : xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
        Subnetzmaske. . . . . . . . . . . : xxx.xxx.0.0
        Standardgateway . . . . . . . . . :

PPP-Adapter XXXXXX:

        Verbindungsspezifisches DNS-Suffix:
        IP-Adresse. . . . . . . . . . . . : xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
        Subnetzmaske. . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
        Standardgateway . . . . . . . . . : xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Python returns the first ip number but I should need the second one. (I
replaced  the digits by 'x'.

JB


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