Re: How to get the configured subnet mask for this machine?

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From: JF Jolin
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:03

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12 Apr 2006 14:41:53 -0700, Mike Knoblock <mknoblock@gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyone know how to use WINAPI to retrieve the subnet mask for a given interface?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/iphlp/iphlp/getadaptersinfo.asp

> I can programmatically retrieve a list of IP addresses with gethostbyname,
> but this doesn't deal with configured subnets.
>
> What's behind all this is I need an application to send a subnet broadcast message
> on startup to find other instances of itself. Running IPCONFIG from a shell is messy,
> and I can't find anything on MSDN.


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JF Jolin

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