Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 11:38:43 +0100 From: Andres Vega Garcia <Andres.Vega_Garcia@sophia.inria.fr> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: programming sockets source address? Message-ID: <199602131038.LAA02981@fun.inria.fr> In-Reply-To: your message of Mon, 12 Feb 1996 20:07:18 PST.
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: Terry Braun <tab@talking.com> wrote:
>
>Your message dated: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 17:40:46 PST
>>
>>> So far, my initial attempts to use bind() before connect() have
been a
>>> wash, as bind returns an errno of EADDRNOTAVAIL, regardless of
which
>>> address I'm using. I was under the impression that bind could be
used
>>> before a connect to set the source address. Is this wrong? Is
there a
>>> correct way to do this (needs to be portable to Linux)?
>>
>I'm not sure what you are trying to do, but if you want to listen on
>a particular socket on you local machine, say on port 1520, this code
>will work-
>
> bindname.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
> bindname.sin_family = AF_INET;
> bindname.sin_port = htons(1520);
> n = bind(sock, &bindname, sizeof(bindname));
>\t
>--------
>Terry Braun tab@talking.com
>Talking Networks, Inc. 510-525-6696
And what can I do to select an specific interface (provided I have
several interfaces)?. Do I just pass the addres belonging to the
interface selected (bindname.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(my_interface's_ad
dr);) ?
Thank you.
Andres
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