Hello. When im binding my socket, i want to find out what local address that is connected to the internet, if there are any, and bind() it to that address. What is the best way to get this info? getaddrinfo() dosn't know if an address is connected to a lan that has no internet access, or if it is connected to a lan with an internet forwarding gateway, or if its directly connected to internet via PPPoE or something like that. Maybe this info be found in the windows register? (just using INADDR_ANY dosn't cut it in this case, i need a specific address to bind to) To clearify what i want to use this for im writing an utility that moitors my internet traffic. Thanks in advance for any input.

What you want to bind to is the interface that's on the same subnet as your default gateway. You can use Windows-specific configuration calls to find the address of the default gateway, and the subnet of each adapter, and compare.

Of course, in the case of NAT, this won't actually bind to an address that's visible on the Internet, but you probably already knew that.

Thanks for your replies!

Maybe im going about this the wrong way, what i want to do is to write an application that i can use to log my games network traffic. I am doing this by setting the SIO_RCVALL option with ioctl(), so that recvfrom() returns both sent and received packets. But using this option with ioctl() only works if i have bound my socket to a specific address, INADDR_ANY will cause it to fail.
I suppose i could just enumerate all addresses and listen to them all, but that feels like a waste, and could complicate things if this application is run on a gateway machine and not infact the machine that is running the game.
Since my game only supports multiplayer over internet via a matchmaking service, i need to know that im listening to the internet connected address.

Does anyone have any better suggestion on how to solve this?

hplus: ah, but can't a computer be connected to more than one gateway? Im not very good at networking theory, can a computer have internet access from more than one address? If so, how does it choose which one to use when sending packets to an internet address?
Could you give me some hints to what these functions are on finding out what the default gateway is?

Thanks.

Quote:can't a computer be connected to more than one gateway?

Most computers have only one default gateway, and make an interface determination based only on netmask. You can only configure a node with more than one gateway if it acts as a router, and then it will typically make packet interface determinations based on route tables, updated using RIP, BGP, or some other such route information protocol.

If you have the source to the game, how about storing the data at the application level? Just store a separate copy when you call send() or recv().

If you don't have the source to the game, then perhaps you can use WireShark for recording the traffic? Or if that's not the UI you want, try using the underlying library, pcap (or WinPcap).