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:

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Answer 1

Just an updated version of mine using LINQ:

/// <summary>
/// Gets the local Ipv4.
/// </summary>
/// <returns>The local Ipv4.</returns>
/// <param name="networkInterfaceType">Network interface type.</param>
IPAddress GetLocalIPv4(NetworkInterfaceType networkInterfaceType)
{
    var networkInterfaces = NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces().Where(i => i.NetworkInterfaceType == networkInterfaceType && i.OperationalStatus == OperationalStatus.Up);

    foreach (var networkInterface in networkInterfaces)
    {
        var adapterProperties = networkInterface.GetIPProperties();

        if (adapterProperties.GatewayAddresses.FirstOrDefault() == null)
                continue;
        foreach (var ip in networkInterface.GetIPProperties().UnicastAddresses)
        {
            if (ip.Address.AddressFamily != AddressFamily.InterNetwork)
                    continue;

            return ip.Address;
        }
    }

    return null;
}

Answer 2

Updating Mrchief's answer with Linq, we will have:

public static IPAddress GetLocalIPAddress()
{
   var host = Dns.GetHostEntry(Dns.GetHostName());
   var ipAddress= host.AddressList.FirstOrDefault(ip => ip.AddressFamily == AddressFamily.InterNetwork);
   return ipAddress;
}

Answer 3

There is a more accurate way when there are multi ip addresses available on local machine. Connect a UDP socket and read its local endpoint:

string localIP;
using (Socket socket = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Dgram, 0))
{
    socket.Connect("8.8.8.8", 65530);
    IPEndPoint endPoint = socket.LocalEndPoint as IPEndPoint;
    localIP = endPoint.Address.ToString();
}

Connect on a UDP socket has the following effect: it sets the destination for Send/Recv, discards all packets from other addresses, and - which is what we use - transfers the socket into "connected" state, settings its appropriate fields. This includes checking the existence of the route to the destination according to the system's routing table and setting the local endpoint accordingly. The last part seems to be undocumented officially but it looks like an integral trait of Berkeley sockets API (a side effect of UDP "connected" state) that works reliably in both Windows and Linux across versions and distributions.

So, this method will give the local address that would be used to connect to the specified remote host. There is no real connection established, hence the specified remote ip can be unreachable.

Answer 4

Modified compman2408's code to be able to iterate through each NetworkInterfaceType.

public static string GetLocalIPv4 (NetworkInterfaceType _type) {
    string output = null;
    foreach (NetworkInterface item in NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces ()) {
        if (item.NetworkInterfaceType == _type && item.OperationalStatus == OperationalStatus.Up) {
            foreach (UnicastIPAddressInformation ip in item.GetIPProperties ().UnicastAddresses) {
                if (ip.Address.AddressFamily == AddressFamily.InterNetwork) {
                    output = ip.Address.ToString ();
                }
            }
        }
    }
    return output;
}

And you can call it like so:

static void Main (string[] args) {
    // Get all possible enum values:
    var nitVals = Enum.GetValues (typeof (NetworkInterfaceType)).Cast<NetworkInterfaceType> ();

    foreach (var nitVal in nitVals) {
        Console.WriteLine ($"{nitVal} => {GetLocalIPv4 (nitVal) ?? "NULL"}");
    }
}

Answer 5

Obsolete gone, this works to me

public static IPAddress GetIPAddress()
{ 
 IPAddress ip = Dns.GetHostAddresses(Dns.GetHostName()).Where(address => 
 address.AddressFamily == AddressFamily.InterNetwork).First();
 return ip;
}

Answer 6

In addition just simple code for getting Client Ip:

        public static string getclientIP()
        {
            var HostIP = HttpContext.Current != null ? HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress : "";
            return HostIP;
        }

Hope it's help you.