Obtaining the IP address of an interface that has a route to a given host
I am writing a simple message queue library that will allow you to configure a messaging service between two servers over TCP or UDP. I want to do away with the notion of client / server, since the two servers will do the same (send and receive messages), so it doesn't matter which.
I thought I'd do this using the IP addresses of the two servers to decide which one should bind the server socket and which one should connect as a client (perhaps choosing the one with the smallest non-equal octet would be the server, assuming it is not the same computer).
To do this, I need to know the local IP address [es] of interface [s], which has a route to another computer. Is there an easy way to get this information?
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$ ip route get 2a00:1450:4016:800::1011
2a00:1450:4016:800::1011 from :: via 2a01:4f8:100:63e0::1
dev eth0 src 2a01:4f8:100:6fab:cdef::1 metric 0
iproute internally uses the netlink RTM_GETROUTE message to get information, and so can you. Then src specifies the address that will be used to communicate with this node if you must use auto-bind (that is, do not call bind (2) before connecting, or invoke wildcard bind on the address field).
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perhaps choosing the one with the smallest non-equal octet server, assuming it is not the same computer
Pretty ad-hoc solution. I would use multicast on my server, and recently started looking for these multicasts and started myself as a server if I didn't find them, and advertised myself through multicasts and so on ...
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