Get local IP address

Question

In the internet there are several places that show you how to get an IP address. And a lot of them look like this example:

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Answer 1

Here is a modified version (from compman2408's one) which worked for me:

    internal static string GetLocalIPv4(NetworkInterfaceType _type)
    {  // Checks your IP adress from the local network connected to a gateway. This to avoid issues with double network cards
        string output = "";  // default output
        foreach (NetworkInterface item in NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces()) // Iterate over each network interface
        {  // Find the network interface which has been provided in the arguments, break the loop if found
            if (item.NetworkInterfaceType == _type && item.OperationalStatus == OperationalStatus.Up)
            {   // Fetch the properties of this adapter
                IPInterfaceProperties adapterProperties = item.GetIPProperties();
                // Check if the gateway adress exist, if not its most likley a virtual network or smth
                if (adapterProperties.GatewayAddresses.FirstOrDefault() != null)
                {   // Iterate over each available unicast adresses
                    foreach (UnicastIPAddressInformation ip in adapterProperties.UnicastAddresses)
                    {   // If the IP is a local IPv4 adress
                        if (ip.Address.AddressFamily == System.Net.Sockets.AddressFamily.InterNetwork)
                        {   // we got a match!
                            output = ip.Address.ToString();
                            break;  // break the loop!!
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            // Check if we got a result if so break this method
            if (output != "") { break; }
        }
        // Return results
        return output;
    }

You can call this method for example like:

GetLocalIPv4(NetworkInterfaceType.Ethernet);

The change: I'm retrieving the IP from an adapter which has a gateway IP assigned to it. Second change: I've added docstrings and break statement to make this method more efficient.