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[toto_7]

Hello,

Trying to "extract" from a pcap file source and destination IP addresses. Is my first contact with this stuff and networking so I'm lil bit confused. How I will get IP and print it out in dotted decimal notation?
For now I have...

struct ip *ip_hdr = (struct ip *)pkt_pointer;

In this struct there are references for ip_src and ip_dst but those are type of struct in_addr. So, I don't know what to do next in order to get those addresses and in what variable type need to store them. and how to convert them in decimal dotted notation.

Thank you

[Flying Dutchman]

unsigned int network_address = ip_hdr->sin_addr.s_addr;

int oct0 = network_address >> 24;
int oct1 = network_address >> 16;
int oct2 = network_address >> 8;
int oct3 = network_address >> 0;

cout << oct0 << "." << oct1 << "." << oct2 << "." << oct3;

Now it's just a matter of putting those in a string.

[toto_7]

Thank you Flying Dutchman, a question what "cout" stands for? And when you are saying "those" for what part you are talking?

[Flying Dutchman]

cout is an C++ object that represents standard output (usually the screen). It's equivalent to stdout in C.

By those I mean oct0 to oct3 and by putting it in a string I mean transforming it to dotted decimal notation.

[toto_7]

Because I'm not so expert with C, a friend of mine, suggest me to use memcpy(). What do you believe, will work too?

[Flying Dutchman]

memcpy is ok, but I would suggest you sprintf, mainly because of easier formatting.

[toto_7]

So for my example will be

char ip[20];

int i;

i = spintf(ip,"%d.%d.%d.%d",oct0,oct1,oct2,oct3);

printf("%s",ip);

?

---------- Post added at 04:29 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:20 PM ----------

Until now I have this:

struct ip *ip_hdr = (struct ip *)pkt_pointer;

		memcpy(_ip_hdr, ip_hdr, sizeof(struct ip));

		unsigned int network_address = _ip_hdr->ip_src.s_addr;

		int oct0 = network_address >> 24;

		int oct1 = network_address >> 16;

		int oct2 = network_address >> 8;

		int oct3 = network_address >> 0;

When trying to print out the oct..
printf("%d.%d.%d.%d",oct0,...);

Getting the same weird result for all. "8.2048.524357.134235392"
Didn't understand your previous post, how to store them in a string, and make it looks like IP addr. :(

[Flying Dutchman]

Could you post your ip structure, please. Also, did you check out pcap file format?