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Am Sonntag, 3. November 2002 13:19 schrieb Marjan Bozinovski:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> In my application I need to retrieve the IP address of the peer host to
> which there is an existing connection identified by the socket number. As
> far as I know there is a function in a kernel implementation of TCP, which
> can accomplish this: getpeername(). The version of this function in the
> socketapi is: ext_getpeername().
>
> Thus, I call this function as follows:
>
> ext_getpeername(socket_number, (struct sockaddr *) &saddr, (socklen_t *)
> sizeof((struct sockaddr) saddr));

The function is defined as
int ext_getpeername(int sockfd, struct sockaddr* name, socklen_t* namelen).
namelen is a pointer to a variable of type socklen_t, which must contain the
size of the structure given by name before ext_getpeername() is called.
ext_getpeername() returns the real size in this variable.
You give the size directly as the parameter namelen (casted to socklen_t*).
ext_getpeername() interprets this size as address, therefore the segfault. Do
the following, and your program should work:

socklen_t saddr_size;
...
saddr_size = sizeof(saddr);
result = ext_getpeername(socket_number, (struct sockaddr *) &saddr,
&saddr_size);


> where
>
> socket_number - the socket descriptor of the SCTP association
> saddr - a structure of type sockaddr_in
>
> But, as a result of the execution of the function, I get segmentation fault
> (core dumped).
>
> Where do I make the mistake? Is there another way of finding out the peer
> host name or IP address by only knowing the socket number.

For multi-homed environments, use sctp_getpaddrs() and sctp_getladdrs() to
obtain remote and local addresses. ext_getpeername() and ext_getsockname()
can only return one of the addresses!


Best regards
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• [RSPlib-Discusssion] ext_getpeername(), Marjan Bozinovski, 11/03/2002
  • Re: [RSPlib-Discusssion] ext_getpeername(), Thomas Dreibholz, 11/04/2002
    • Re: [RSPlib-Discusssion] ext_getpeername(), Marjan Bozinovski, 11/04/2002

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