Urs Liska wrote:
Hello list,
is there any method of getting the IP address of the computer the patch is running on?
[shell] + ipconfig ?
i guess the problem is, that most computers are virtually multi-homed (having multiple network cards and IP-addresses attached to them): very few (actually not true: more and more gaming computers are shipped with dual ethernet cards) computers have multiple real ethernet cards. however, apart from your normal network card (eth0) bound to whatever IP you assign to it, you have a loopback device (lo) bound to 127.0.0.1 (localhost) so you have to make a decision which network device you want to transmit as your "local IP" address. (in most cases, 127.0.0.1 is not what you want to transmit)
I would like to simplify the process of connecting two patches by sending the second patch the IP address of the first patch.
i would use some magic in a startup script which queries the IP address and then saves it to a file or sends it to pd using the "-send" flag when starting pd (i would prefer the later as it needs no additional files)
mfg.ad.r IOhannes
Thanks Urs