Get Destination Address of a Received Udp Packet

Get destination address of a received UDP packet

You set the IP_PKTINFO option using setsockopt and then use recvmsg and get a in_pktinfo structure in the msg_control member of struct msghdr. the in_pktinfo has a field with the destination address of the packet.

See: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/how-to-get-destination-address-of-udp-packet-600103/ where I found the answer for more details.

Getting the destination IP of incoming UDP packet in C++

GetTcpTable() does not give you the destination IP of TCP packets. It merely gives you a list of currently listening TCP ports and active TCP connections.

GetUdpTable() can give you the list of currently listening UDP ports, where UDP packets can be sent to. There are no connections in UDP.

But, if you want to know the actual destination IP for each UDP packet received, and without having to use a low-level capture library like WinPCap, then you can use the WSARecvMsg() function to receive your UDP packets, rather than using the recvfrom() or even recv() function.

WSARecvMsg() can report metadata about each packet, most notably the IP_PKTINFO (IPv4) and IPV6_PKTINFO (IPv6) control blocks, which specify the destination IP of the packet and the index of the network interface that received the packet.

You need to use WSAIoctl(SIO_GET_EXTENSION_FUNCTION_POINTER) to obtain a pointer to the WSARecvMsg() function (see Why is the WSARecvMsg function implemented as a function pointer and can this pointer be reused? for the reason why), and use setsockopt() to enable the IP_PKTINFO/IPV6_PKTINFO socket option, before you start calling WSARecvMsg() to receive packets.

See Function to retrieve the header destination address from a packet in windows XP for an example.

Obtain local IP address on receiving UDP

LocalAddr effectively returns the address value passed to ListenPacket. If this is not specific enough for you, you'll need to create multiple listeners, one for each IP address on your server.

How to find the destination address of a UDP packet using boost::asio?

Unfortunately this is not possible with boost::asio, and usually is not "the way to do" it, as you try to access Transport Layer information at the Application Layer.

So you basically have two options:

a) Write non-portable system code with for example IP_PKTINFO or SO_BINDTODEVICE on Linux. Example Code can be found on the boost asio mailing list here

b) use two distinct sockets, one for the multicast and one for the unicast. You therefore need to specify a listen_address other than "0.0.0.0" on each socket.

udp::endpoint(address_v4::from_string("239.192.152.143"), 6771)

This Question on SO might also be helpful: Using a specific network interface for a socket in windows

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