find IP address of local machine

hi!

I'm trying to figure out a way to get the IP addresses associated with all network interfaces in my laptop. I have two interfaces :

1) eth0 - ethernet
2) eth1 - cisco wireless card

I read around and wrote this small program:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <netdb.h>
                                                                               
int main() {
        char hostname[100];
                                                                               
        int ret = gethostname(hostname, sizeof(hostname));
        printf("Hostname: %s\n", hostname);
                                                                               
        struct hostent *ht = gethostbyname(hostname);
                                                                               
        int i=0;
        while(ht->h_addr_list[i] != NULL) {
                printf("Address[%d]: %s\n", i, inet_ntoa(*((struct in_addr *)ht->h_addr_list[i])));
                i++;
        }
                                                                               
        return 0;
}

But the problem is that this only returns me the IP of the loopback interface 127.0.0.1 and nothing on eth0 and eth1 when both have IPs assigned to them.

I will be grateful for any help in this regard.

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