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I’m trying to write a BOOTP server in c#.
I’m receiving and parsing the BOOTP packet from the client and I need to reply with my server IP address.
The problem is:
Is there any way to find out what adapter the UDP packet was received on?
There are a few possible ways to do this. Bind a separate socket on each IP on each physical interface, then you’ll always know which interface the packet arrived on. You can also try the IP_RECVIF flag together with the recvmsg socket function, although I don’t know if that’s supported on Windows. Steven’s has examples in Section 22.2 and 22.6 of Unix Network Programming. You can use the SIOCGIFCONF flag with ioctl to get a list of interfaces on the machine. There is an example program in UNP section 17.6. If c# doesn’t give you access to these functions but their supported on Windows you could write a simple C program to collect and update the interface / IP info and then use mmap to share a memory region between your C# program and the interface enumerator.