Get local IP address

Question

In the internet there are several places that show you how to get an IP address. And a lot of them look like this example:

String strHostName = string.Empty;         


        

Answer 1

string str="";

System.Net.Dns.GetHostName();

IPHostEntry ipEntry = System.Net.Dns.GetHostEntry(str);

IPAddress[] addr = ipEntry.AddressList;

string IP="Your Ip Address Is :->"+ addr[addr.Length - 1].ToString();

Answer 2

Dns.GetHostEntry(Dns.GetHostName()).AddressList[1].MapToIPv4() //returns 192.168.14.1

Answer 3

I also was struggling with obtaining the correct IP.

I tried a variety of the solutions here but none provided me the desired affect. Almost all of the conditional tests that was provided caused no address to be used.

This is what worked for me, hope it helps...

var firstAddress = (from address in NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces().Select(x => x.GetIPProperties()).SelectMany(x => x.UnicastAddresses).Select(x => x.Address)
                    where !IPAddress.IsLoopback(address) && address.AddressFamily == System.Net.Sockets.AddressFamily.InterNetwork
                    select address).FirstOrDefault();

Console.WriteLine(firstAddress);

Answer 4

This is the best code I found to get the current IP, avoiding get VMWare host or other invalid IP address.

public string GetLocalIpAddress()
{
    UnicastIPAddressInformation mostSuitableIp = null;

    var networkInterfaces = NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces();

    foreach (var network in networkInterfaces)
    {
        if (network.OperationalStatus != OperationalStatus.Up)
            continue;

        var properties = network.GetIPProperties();

        if (properties.GatewayAddresses.Count == 0)
            continue;

        foreach (var address in properties.UnicastAddresses)
        {
            if (address.Address.AddressFamily != AddressFamily.InterNetwork)
                continue;

            if (IPAddress.IsLoopback(address.Address))
                continue;

            if (!address.IsDnsEligible)
            {
                if (mostSuitableIp == null)
                    mostSuitableIp = address;
                continue;
            }

            // The best IP is the IP got from DHCP server
            if (address.PrefixOrigin != PrefixOrigin.Dhcp)
            {
                if (mostSuitableIp == null || !mostSuitableIp.IsDnsEligible)
                    mostSuitableIp = address;
                continue;
            }

            return address.Address.ToString();
        }
    }

    return mostSuitableIp != null 
        ? mostSuitableIp.Address.ToString()
        : "";
}

Answer 5

This returns addresses from any interfaces that have gateway addresses and unicast addresses in two separate lists, IPV4 and IPV6.

public static (List<IPAddress> V4, List<IPAddress> V6) GetLocal()
{
    List<IPAddress> foundV4 = new List<IPAddress>();
    List<IPAddress> foundV6 = new List<IPAddress>();

    NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces().ToList().ForEach(ni =>
    {
        if (ni.GetIPProperties().GatewayAddresses.FirstOrDefault() != null)
        {
            ni.GetIPProperties().UnicastAddresses.ToList().ForEach(ua =>
            {
                if (ua.Address.AddressFamily == AddressFamily.InterNetwork) foundV4.Add(ua.Address);
                if (ua.Address.AddressFamily == AddressFamily.InterNetworkV6) foundV6.Add(ua.Address);
            });
        }
    });

    return (foundV4.Distinct().ToList(), foundV6.Distinct().ToList());
}

Answer 6

For a laugh, thought I'd try and get a single LINQ statement by using the new C# 6 null-conditional operator. Looks pretty crazy and probably horribly inefficient, but it works.

private string GetLocalIPv4(NetworkInterfaceType type = NetworkInterfaceType.Ethernet)
{
    // Bastardized from: http://stackoverflow.com/a/28621250/2685650.

    return NetworkInterface
        .GetAllNetworkInterfaces()
        .FirstOrDefault(ni =>
            ni.NetworkInterfaceType == type
            && ni.OperationalStatus == OperationalStatus.Up
            && ni.GetIPProperties().GatewayAddresses.FirstOrDefault() != null
            && ni.GetIPProperties().UnicastAddresses.FirstOrDefault(ip => ip.Address.AddressFamily == AddressFamily.InterNetwork) != null
        )
        ?.GetIPProperties()
        .UnicastAddresses
        .FirstOrDefault(ip => ip.Address.AddressFamily == AddressFamily.InterNetwork)
        ?.Address
        ?.ToString()
        ?? string.Empty;
}

Logic courtesy of Gerardo H (and by reference compman2408).