Calculate broadcast address from ip and subnet mask

Question

I want to calculate the broadcast address for:

IP:     192.168.3.1
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
=       192.168.3.255

in C.

I know the way

Answer 1

ok whom will look for this code in the future. I have spend sometimes today as I needed this, here is the full code and it works :) simply copy and paste it and then import the required dlls.

private IPAddress CalculateBroadCastAddress(IPAddress currentIP, IPAddress ipNetMask)
    {
        string[] strCurrentIP = currentIP.ToString().Split('.');
        string[] strIPNetMask = ipNetMask.ToString().Split('.');

        ArrayList arBroadCast = new ArrayList();

        for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
        {
            int nrBCOct = int.Parse(strCurrentIP[i]) | (int.Parse(strIPNetMask[i]) ^ 255);
            arBroadCast.Add(nrBCOct.ToString());
        }
        return IPAddress.Parse(arBroadCast[0] + "." + arBroadCast[1] +
               "." + arBroadCast[2] + "." + arBroadCast[3]);
    }


    private IPAddress getIP()
    {
        IPHostEntry host = Dns.GetHostEntry(Dns.GetHostName());
        foreach (IPAddress ip in host.AddressList)
        {
            if (ip.AddressFamily == AddressFamily.InterNetwork)
            {
                return ip;

            }
        }
        return null;
    }

    private IPAddress getSubnetMask()
    {
        NetworkInterface[] Interfaces = NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces();
        IPAddress ip = getIP();
        foreach (NetworkInterface interf in Interfaces)
        {

            UnicastIPAddressInformationCollection UnicastIPInfoCol = interf.GetIPProperties().UnicastAddresses;

            foreach (UnicastIPAddressInformation UnicatIPInfo in UnicastIPInfoCol)
            {
                if (UnicatIPInfo.Address.Equals(ip))
                    return UnicatIPInfo.IPv4Mask;
            }

        }

        return null;

    }

Then just call it like :

IPAddress  broadcastip = CalculateBroadCastAddress(getIP(), getSubnetMask());

Happy coding :)