Check if IP is in LAN (behind firewalls and routers)

Question

I\'ve been crawling in the web for about 5 hours now and couldn\'t find a solution for my problem:

My company is developing an educational game and I\'m writing an autou

Answer 1

You could take advantage of TTL. With a TTL of 1 the packet won't be able to make it to the internet:

private static bool IsLanIP(IPAddress address)
{
    var ping = new Ping();
    var rep = ping.Send(address, 100, new byte[] { 1 }, new PingOptions()
    {
        DontFragment = true,
        Ttl = 1
    });
    return rep.Status != IPStatus.TtlExpired && rep.Status != IPStatus.TimedOut && rep.Status != IPStatus.TimeExceeded;
}

However, remember that it is called an IPv4 mask for a reason - you can use it as one (so here is your algorithmic solution):

private static bool IsLanIP(IPAddress address)
{
    var interfaces = NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces();
    foreach (var iface in interfaces)
    {
        var properties = iface.GetIPProperties();
        foreach (var ifAddr in properties.UnicastAddresses)
        {
            if (ifAddr.IPv4Mask != null && 
                ifAddr.Address.AddressFamily == AddressFamily.InterNetwork &&
                CheckMask(ifAddr.Address, ifAddr.IPv4Mask, address))
                return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
}

private static bool CheckMask(IPAddress address, IPAddress mask, IPAddress target)
{
    if (mask == null)
        return false;

    var ba = address.GetAddressBytes();
    var bm = mask.GetAddressBytes();
    var bb = target.GetAddressBytes();

    if (ba.Length != bm.Length || bm.Length != bb.Length)
        return false;

    for (var i = 0; i < ba.Length; i++)
    {
        int m = bm[i];

        int a = ba[i] & m;
        int b = bb[i] & m;

        if (a != b)
            return false;
    }

    return true;
}