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Date:      Sat, 8 Sep 2001 23:30:15 -0500
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: outbound SOCK_STREAM - force source addr?
Message-ID:  <20010908233014.J2965@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0109090353010.3787-100000@www.everquick.net>; from eddy%2Bpublic%2Bspam@noc.everquick.net on Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 04:04:06AM %2B0000
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.20.0109090353010.3787-100000@www.everquick.net>

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* E.B. Dreger <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net> [010908 23:04] wrote:
> Greetings all,
> 
> Any way to force the source address for an outbound SOCK_STREAM?  I
> know that one can do it for SOCK_DGRAM... but I've found no way to
> do so for, say, a TCP connection.

It's not immediatly obvious, but you can bind(2) a socket
before calling connect(2) in order to do this.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'

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