Forum Post: RE: IP address of AppServer client

[Lieven De Foor]

Mike Fechner But doesn’t the client know which IP Address it uses to connect to the AppServer? So it should find be able to find it’s own IP Address in the same network segment using the network mask. The client connects through the name server. Is there a way to figure out on what client IP this is happening? I'm not sure the address should be on the same segment either, the network infrastructure can probably handle requests from different subnets and pass it on to the correct endpoint? Bill Wood Can you clarify the problem a little? If you pass the IP address in the method signature, it seems that the appserver will now know the IP address of the client. I am not sure I understand the issue. (You could also pass this in as a property in a Client-Principal if your client is one that can create a C-P -- so you would not need to change the signature of your methods) I am guessing you would use sockets to communicate back to the "client" - is that correct? The problem is that the client machine can have different IP's, but only one of them is used to communicate with the AppServer. What I'm looking for is a way to know what address is used for the connection so the AppServer can use it to communicate back (indeed using a socket). If I can know it on the client side and pass it to the server that would be fine too offcourse.

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