I was looking for a way to detect IPV6 address changes using delphi 7 on Windows XP and above. For Vista there is a Windows API that I know. I came across a code that claimed to do the same on XP. Here is the code below:
uses WinSock2 ; //
procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
s: TSocket;
wsaD: TWSADATA;
BytesReturned: u_long;
PtrA: Pointer;
Buffer: array[0..20] of INTERFACE_INFO;
ret: Integer;
begin
try
FillChar(wsaD, SizeOf(wsaD),
FillChar(Buffer, SizeOf(Buffer),
WSAStartup($0101, wsaD); // Start WinSock,You should normally check for errors here
{Create a WSA Socket}
// s := WSASocketA(AF_INET6,SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP, nil, 0, 0);
s := Socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP); // Open a socket
if (s = INVALID_SOCKET) then
Exit;
PtrA := @bytesReturned;
// Ret := WSAIoCtl(s, SIO_ADDRESS_LIST_CHANGE, @Buffer,1024, @Buffer, 1024, PtrA, nil, nil);
Ret := WSAIoCtl(s, SIO_ADDRESS_LIST_QUERY, nil,0, @Buffer, SizeOf(Buffer), PtrA, nil, nil);
DebugLog('Ret Value = ' + SysErrorMessage(WSAGetLastError),0);
if ret = 0 then
begin
// DebugLog('IP Address changed !',0);
//Showmessage('Operation succeeded !')
end
else
begin
//DebugLog('No change found in IP Address',0);
// showmessage(SysErrorMessage(WSAGetLastError));
end;
WSAcleanUp;
except
end;
end;
I get the error code as
"An invalid argument was specified."
When I change the control code to SIO_ADDRESS_LIST_QUERY, then the code works fine.
Can someone help me with this?