IPAddress creation

[MG]

Hello,

I try to create IPAddress object from array of bytes and it always throws
exception,
even when array of bytes is taken from proper IPAddress object:

IPAddress lAddress=IPAddress.Parse("1.2.3.4");
byte[] lBytes=lAddress.GetAddressBytes();
IPAddress lNewAddress=new IPAddress(lBytes);

Has anyone encountered the problem?
Am I doing something wrong ??
(Im usingFramework 1.1)

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

MG,

What is the exception that is thrown? Also, what are the contents of
the byte array that you are passing in? You should have a 16-element byte
array. The reason for this is to account for the fact that IP addresses are
being widened at some point in time.

Hope this helps.

 

[MG]

Nicholas,

Thanks for help - passing array with 16 elements works.
Is there any info about this topic - I looked at online MSDN at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ml/frlrfsystemnetipaddressclassctortopic1.asp
but found no info on format of the passed array.

Thought that GetAddressBytes() method returns data that is sufficient to
create another object.
I will work it out with my own conversion.

Thanks.

MG