Winsock connect to IP

[dellthinker]

Hi all, I've searched for this answer only to find that other people have been asking the same question but with little or no answers. I have a socket function that I want to connect to a server by IP with out the use of gethostbyname(). Can anyone point me to a tutorial or some documentation that Google couldn't find when I was searching? Or just give me some starter suggestions? Thanx.

[hoxsiew]

Something like this?:

  SOCKET sock;
  unsigned long ip_addr;
  struct sockaddr_in client;

  ip_addr=inet_addr("192.168.1.10");
  memcpy(&client.sin_addr,&ip_addr,sizeof(ip_addr));
  client.sin_port=htons(10010);
  sock=socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,0);
  connect(sock,(struct sockaddr *)&client,sizeof(client));

[Austin.Soucy]

Check out MSDN.

There is some great information here. It is tough to get through at first because there is a lot of jargon. But once you start to learn the terms it makes sense.

Hope this helps!

[Austin.Soucy]

Anyways, here is how I do it:

SOCKET hSocket;
int iResult = 0;
char ipaddress[18] = {NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL};
int pnum = 0;
//user input here or set values for ipaddress and pnum




hSocket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);

sockaddr_in sockAddr1;

sockAddr1.sin_family = AF_INET;

sockAddr1.sin_port = htons(pnum);

sockAddr1.sin_addr.S_un.S_addr = inet_addr((const char*)ipaddress);

iResult=connect( hSocket, (SOCKADDR*) &sockAddr1, (int) sizeof(sockAddr1));

Yes, I use a char array, so what?! It works for me...