I cant find anything on how to give my peice of software a known IP address and have it connect, all the tutorials are getting the IP from the hostName, but I just want to give it like 127.0.0.1 and have it go there (except use an Internet IP) Anyone have a code snippet or something?

What langauge and what api? (win32, .net) Also are you trying to get the IP address of your machine or someone elses?

theTroll

Ack my internet crashed and somehow it sent the post before i finished typing, it occured to me to check the articles on gamdev, a new one since the last time has the answer. Sry for the inconveinece. BTW I was using C++ and Winsock 1.1.
inet_aton ("ip"); does what i need. Thx

this page has all the info you need. the specific thing of how to connect to an IP address is also covered. just give the page a read-through

http://johnnie.jerrata.com/winsocktutorial/

specifically here's a code snippet from the page that's dealing with your question:


-me