> Assuming context of: Modern unix-or-unix-like-system.
>
> There is no portable way to force the network stack to prefer a given
> interface at the client-application level. A call to connect(3) in
> the library will select the near endpoint based on the destination
> IP-addr.
>
Mea culpa ... A few minutes of experimentation allowed me to prove
myself wrong.
Even client code can call bind() to prefer a source endpoint...
search through perlipc for the trivial TCP client and add the
following line:
bind(SOCK, sockaddr_in((0, inet_aton('192.234.345.456')))
|| die "bind: $!";
between the calls to socket() and connect().
Obviously you'll need to replace that bogus IP-addr with the ip-addr
of your local interface.
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