Programmatically find the IP address of the desktop over USB tethering

Question

Hi,

Is there a way to find the IP address of the desktop machine connected the android phone after USB tethering is turned on? Does android assign a fixed IP address to the desktop? Or does it assign a dynamic address (dhcp)? Is there a PPP connection created between the phone and machine?

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

AFAIK, in usb tethering mode the phone is acting as the computer's modem, so the PC's IP would be the phone's IP.

Answer 2

If it were to be same, wouldn't sending any data from the android phone to PC cause problems? since there are 2 devices with same IP.

Does the phone assign a address using dhcp to the PC or does it establishes a PPP connection?