Re: [Freehoo-devel] [PATCH: freehoo] wrong way of finding local ip

[Anand Babu]

,----[ Anand Avati <address@hidden> ]
| hi people,
|    first of all thank you for the great messenger :) i downloaded it
|    today and fell for it flat! but that was after a while..
| 
|    once again, thanks people for the wonderful piece of work :) i'm
|    really loving this!! i was satisfying myself with centericq.. but
|    this one kicks ass! just the one what i wanted!
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Messenger is something I use very often. Being a fan of GNU Emacs and
GNU Bash,  I wanted my messenger to work in console mode with
scheme/lisp like extensibility and readline interface. And hence
Freehoo. Thanks, your words are very motivating.

,----[ Anand Avati <address@hidden> ]
|    ok the patch is attached (pasted) below.. the logic with the
|    patch is to find the interface which has the default gateway, and
|    to get the ip address of that interface. i'm sure this logic is
|    not 100% fool proof either, and can cause problem with secondary
|    IP's added through iproute2 which isnt reflected in
|    ifconfig.. but i couldnt get a right way to do it either.. (dint
|    want to change popen("ifconfig ..") to popen("ip ..") for
|    cross-platform reasons, and there is no way ifconfig gets
|    secondary ip's added via iproute2) ..
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You are correct. I applied your patch to the CVS. Thanks.

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Anand Babu
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