Obtained IP, but not right, some kind of conversion? 1

[sph147]

I get information about an Ethernet device on my computer using a function call that returns a sockaddr* struct. when i output the sa_data in that struct and expect to get my IP (should be a 192.x.x.x cause i'm off a local switch) and my netmask, i'm getting numbers like
"1694607552" for IP and
"16777215" for netmask
I'm almost sure the sockaddr is holding that info because another similair program retrievs the correct info from the same function call, but I don't know how. Am I missing something obvious? Why isn't the number even close to correct? And how can I get it into the familiar dotted notation?? Thank you for any help.

 

[Salem]

Well

[tt]1694607552[/tt] decimal
is
[tt]6501A8C0[/tt] hexadecimal

Reading from right-to-left, you have
[tt]C0 = 192
A8 = 168
01 = 1
65 = 101[/tt]

Basically, you need to use things to extract individual bytes out of an unsigned long.

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[sph147]

I wish it would have been more complicated so I felt better about not getting it, but either way, thanks a million.